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...January 2008. But the Supreme Court can block Musharraf's bid to remain in power by enforcing a constitutional ban on elected officials from holding military rank. (Retired soldiers must wait two years before standing for office.) Musharraf previously got around the contravention by getting an exemption from tame judges. That exemption expires when his term does, and the Supreme Court, which resents the general for trying to sack highly respected Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry earlier this year, is unlikely to give him another. "Never before has a judiciary emerged which is able to check the power of the executive...
...most immediate threat to Musharraf comes from the Supreme Court, which can block his bid to remain in power by enforcing a constitutional ban on elected officials holding military rank. Musharraf previously got around that by obtaining an exemption from tame judges. That exemption expires on Nov. 15, and Supreme Court justices, who resent the general for trying to sack an independent-minded top judge earlier this year, are unlikely to give him another. If Musharraf sheds his uniform, they can block him with another constitutional provision: retired soldiers must wait two years before standing for office...
...With the nation's firefighters struggling to tame the blazes, nearby countries - from Israel to Italy - delivered manpower and equipment to help the effort. Locals fought back, too: one man doused the flames that licked his home with hundreds of liters of wine...
Mining engineers call it a "bump," but that seems like far too tame a term for what happened at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah Thursday night. As rescuers tried to dig down to where six coal miners have been trapped since Aug. 6, the walls of their tunnel exploded inward violently, hurling projectiles of rock and coal at the workers. The awful result: two rescue workers and a federal mine inspector are dead, and several more are in the hospital...
...podium at 2 a.m. and launched into his prepared talk on article 25 of the Pakistani constitution, about non-discrimination before the law. Following in the wake of several fiery speeches proclaiming victory against military interference and exhortations to carry on the good fight, his talk was remarkably tame. Boring even. But the audience was rapt. "In the eyes of the law all citizens are equal. I appreciate that you are struggling for a free and independent judiciary and supremacy of law. Your struggle is unprecedented in the history of Pakistan," he said. "It is the basic responsibility...