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...just thought it was a funny time and an enjoyable time,” Zia A. Okocha ’08 said...
...power between 1996 and 2001. The caretaker government has also accused Hasina of involvement in the killings of four political rivals during widespread unrest late last year (an accusation Hasina also denies). It was that violence, which pitted Hasina's supporters against those of outgoing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party, that brought to power Ahmed and his military backers. Government officials charged with overseeing the election period declared a state of emergency and indefinitely postponed polls planned for late January...
Hasina is just one of many former top government officials caught in the net of Ahmed's anti-corruption campaign. More than 150 senior politicians, public servants and businessmen have been charged so far, including former Prime Minister Zia, who government prosecutors have ordered to appear before a court by late August over tax evasion allegations. Both Hasina and Zia, bitter rivals who have alternated in power over the past decade and a half, complain that the charges are designed to permanently sideline them from political life...
...prominence with The Isle (or, as aficionados describe it, the erotic fish-hook movie) and has ben paring down his style ever since, in Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring Again and the near-wordless 3-Iron. His new film is more conventional, not so rewarding. Yeon (the actress Zia) switches her affection from her faithless husband to a condemned killer (Taiwanese star Chang Chen) who keeps trying to commit suicide. Both, the movie says, are doomed, but to Yeon life is made precious by her devotion to the condemned man. It's one of those stories with a predictable...
...back to my country.' SHEIKH HASINA, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, after being barred from boarding a flight from London to Dhaka. Bangladesh's interim government has asked airlines not to allow Hasina to fly into the country, after fighting between her supporters and those of political rival Khaleda Zia led it to impose a state of emergency in January