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Bhutto, exhibiting a newly discovered resolve vis-à-vis Musharraf, with whom she had hoped to reach a power-sharing deal, declared his announcement insufficient, and demanded that he remove his uniform immediately. She said Musharraf should release the original judges and let "the real Supreme Court" decide on his legitimacy. "We will accept the decision of that Supreme Court, which will be constitutional and includes those judges who are detained," she said. Up until now, Bhutto has avoided all references to Pakistan's judiciary, focusing instead on elections and a call for civilian rule...
...incompleteness. Perhaps the most fundamental fact of human existence is its total contingency upon fate: The reasons that I am who I am, and not someone else, are necessarily inexplicable. No one can account for the intrinsic irrationality of existence (the fact of our general good fortune vis-à -vis the fact of others’ enormous suffering, for example). Similarly, we can never escape the reality that our assumptions, arguments, and interpretations all depend on the specific environment that nurtures...
...greater danger in the Craig scandal is that it could further alienate the party's social conservative base, said Stephen Schneck, head of the politics department at Catholic University in Washington. "Republican leaders are frantic, fearing a cataclysmic collapse of the perceived moral high ground vis-?-vis the Democrats among Evangelicals and Catholics - not only among swing voters, but among the base," said Schneck...
...What a shock, then, to arrive in a country where the prevailing attitude vis-Ã -vis ethnic and cultural difference is precisely the opposite...
...sort of works at a pace that is not conducive to things that need rapid results. It has to consider all its member nations, and it has to go through a bureaucratic process. China is definitely impacting what is happening in Sudan given its relationship vis-à-vis the oil. But I believe the U.N. is trying to make moves...