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...Mahathir has to tread lightly. One key issue is whether the hudud laws violate the country's constitution. Kuala Lumpur insists that the Terengganu state assembly does not have the right to enact laws covering criminal offenses, which can only be passed by the country's national assembly. The central government's Law Minister recently promised that Terengganu's hudud laws would soon be challenged in court, though legal analysts say they expect the government to allow the suit to come from a private individual or group, not from the Attorney General. Says P. Ramasamy, a professor of political science...
...Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker" (which includes five Nash poems) describes this trope as his "uniquely anarchic prosody." But the truth is, he flouted these rules to flaunt his jocosity. Here's one example, About bankers who got into television as a new field, not to tread in but to trample...
...million years old--a million years more ancient than the previous record holder. Indeed, this new species is as much older than the famous Lucy as Lucy is older than we are. It almost certainly dates from very near that crucial moment in prehistory when hominids began to tread an evolutionary path that diverged from that of chimps, our closest living relatives. Even more surprising, this ancient hominid was not discovered anywhere near the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where all the record setters of the past three decades have been found. Instead, it turned...
...BEATEN TRACK This online magazine and travelers' network provides original and imaginative features as well as insightful historical and cultural articles about unusual destinations. A Bhutanese writer recently wrote about his country's efforts to tread a middle path between modernity and tradition. The site also hosts housing and equipment exchanges, travel recommendations and volunteer opportunities...
...American flag today, her task would be much simpler. She could just hoist a pair of old jeans up the flagpole. Egalitarian, utilitarian and rugged, jeans project the American sensibility. And as a standard bearer of America's global dominance, they stride where even Coca-Cola fears to tread. But recently jeans have become something else as well. They have become expensive, elitist and European...