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...year term as President and wins him points at home and abroad. But regardless of what outfit he wears, Musharraf has left Pakistan with a tattered constitution patched with amendments and filled now with so many loopholes justifying his rule that it resembles a crocheted doily, ready to be thrown over whatever ugliness the next ruler creates in pursuit of power...
...Taking the Gloves Off Not until Clinton turned in a couple of unsteady debate performances of her own in October, after having dominated the forums up to that point, did it seem as though someone had thrown a switch in Obama. Suddenly for Obama, as Lincoln wrote of his own presidential aspirations in 1860, "the taste is in my mouth." Voters began to see that he really wanted the job he was campaigning for. "There's a certain joy to it that I see in him now," says his strategist David Axelrod. "I just sensed from that point on that...
...little late for Obama to start worrying about that now. Since he made the decision not just to run but to get pugnacious as well - and since he emerged in the polls as Hillary Clinton's most serious opponent - hardly a news cycle has passed without a punch being thrown by one camp or the other. "It's going to look like this every day between now and the caucuses," says Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson. In the latest rounds, Obama has tried jujitsu, challenging Clinton on what she considers to be her greatest strength, while exposing his own most glaring...
...people to be taken back to the era of sham democracy, but to a true one" - rings hollow. Musharraf has bequeathed to Pakistan a tattered constitution, patched with amendments and filled now with so many loopholes justifying his rule that it better resembles a crocheted doily, ready to be thrown over whatever ugliness the next ruler creates in the pursuit of power...
...mayor-appointed citizens, told the community that the science complex should not be used as a device to fulfill all of the neighborhood’s wishes. “A lot of hope is being built upon the hope of having an enormous amount of long term benefits thrown into the science project,” he said. “It’s unreasonable to think that every possible wish will come true between now and the time we have until the end of the year.” Senior Project Manager for the Boston Redevelopment Authority...