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...Television has hired Mr. Ahmad Quraishi, who, according to his “think tank,” has experience in “Immaculate Deception Creations tailored to your senses.” His website runs conspiracy theories which suggest that the world is designing a campaign to unseat Musharraf and that the U.S. was behind Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.Mr. Quraishi’s outrageous statements are not a new phenomenon: mouthpieces for collapsing dictators have frequently played their part in promoting propaganda and nonsense. Mohammad Saeed as-Sahaf (MSS), the Iraqi minister of (mis?)information, became...
...astoundingly, New York City ended 2007 with 496 murders, the lowest number since 1963 [when statistics were first collected] - spurring New York magazine to ask the provocative question, "What would it take [for the murder rate] to go all the way to zero?" Chicago, bruised by enough scandal to unseat its superintendent of police, still managed to record just 443, the fewest since 1965 and the fourth straight year of logging under 500 murders...
...Snow ’09 continually marveled—to predictions of the upcoming results. “There was this image of Sundquist as a UC god,” Roy T. Willey IV ’09 said as he mused over the possibility that he might unseat the UC insider. “We definitely took some of the varnish off him as this perfect candidate.” As more and more supporters filtered in, one of them brought the news that Sundquist had won the election. And a good five minutes before the official call...
Musharraf cannot afford less than a landslide for his party; otherwise he risks facing an opposition in parliament that could invalidate his extra-constitutional declaration of emergency rule. At the very least a two-thirds majority could unseat him. A two-thirds majority in parliament could also call for the reinstatement of the original Supreme Court, which Sharif says is his party's primary goal. That reconstituted high court could then rule that Musharraf contravened the constitution by dismissing the judges in the first place and declaring emergency. And, what is most worrisome for Musharraf, working outside the constitution...
Musharraf, whose popularity has been in free fall since he tried, and failed, to unseat a popular Supreme Court Justice last spring, has nothing to lose in this scenario. He has sworn to step down as Army Chief once elected President but he reserves the right to stay in uniform should he not be elected, an old threat of martial law exhumed by Friday's ruling. Musharraf has already reshuffled the top ranking generals to better ensure a loyal army corps ready to do his bidding even as a civilian President...