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    Nov 14, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Aunt Benazir's false promises

    We Pakistanis live in uncertain times. Emergency rule has been imposed for the 13th time in our short 60-year history. Thousands of lawyers have been arrested, some charged with sedition and treason; the chief justice has been deposed; and a draconian...

    Tags: Benazir Bhutto, Crime, Law and Justice, Police Arrests, Karachi (Pakistan), Lawyers

  2. Nov 29, 2007 |Column| Los Angeles Times
  3. Good news on Bush's watch?

    Peace in our time? All of a sudden, we're getting foreign affairs news that seems, well, good. The Israelis and Palestinians are restarting the long-stalled peace process. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has stepped down as army chief of staff and...

    Tags: Republican Party, Benazir Bhutto, Defense, Coup d'Etat, Annapolis

  4. Jan 2, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. After Bhutto

    It has taken less than a week for the tragedy of Benazir Bhutto's assassination to segue into the farce of a potentially disastrous dynastic succession. The slain former prime minister, a woman of enormous strengths and flaws, certainly had the legitimacy...

    Tags: Firearms, Elections, Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto, Defense

  6. Nov 24, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Venezuela's path to self-destruction

    On Dec. 2, Venezuelans will be asked to vote on a whopping 69 constitutional amendments that would greatly reduce the country's democratic governance, strip citizens of still more individual liberties and thus expand President Hugo Chavez's power even...

    Tags: Elections, Defense, Crime, Law and Justice, Voting, Government

  8. Dec 19, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. Batting and bowling amid the shadows

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    LAHORE, PAKISTAN -- Back in the warrens of Lahore's old city, the boys and young men don't seem too worried about whether American politicians (Hillary Rodham Clinton) or American newsmagazines (Newsweek) think Pakistan might be the most frightening...

    Tags: FIFA World Cup, Los Angeles Times, Pakistan, Multi-Sport Events, Emergency Incidents

  10. Nov 20, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  11. Lawyers denounce Pakistani jailings

    Hundreds of lawyers in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and around the world have been demonstrating in support of their brethren in Pakistan who were detained by police for protesting the suspension of that country's constitution early this month. Pakistan'...

    Tags: Coup d'Etat, Philosophy, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, Civil Unrest

  12. Nov 29, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. Musharraf takes oath as civilian president

    President Pervez Musharraf was inaugurated today as a civilian president, as aides signaled that a date for ending a nearly month-old emergency decree could be announced later in the day.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    President Pervez Musharraf was inaugurated today as a civilian president, as aides signaled that a date for ending a nearly month-old emergency decree could be announced later in the day. Clad in a dark tunic and looking somber, Musharraf was sworn in by...

    Tags: Elections, Benazir Bhutto, Defense, Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Times

  14. Feb 19, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Musharraf's party appears to be losing Pakistan vote

    President Pervez Musharraf's party appeared headed for a decisive defeat at the hands of two opposition parties today after a tense nationwide vote, according to unofficial preliminary returns and local media projections.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
    President Pervez Musharraf's party appeared headed for a decisive defeat at the hands of two opposition parties today after a tense nationwide vote, according to unofficial preliminary returns and local media projections. Formal and final results may...

    Tags: Elections, Benazir Bhutto, Armed Conflicts, Family, Los Angeles Times

  16. Feb 13, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Pakistan elections to test president's might

    The lingering sting of tear gas hung in the air as Roedad Khan, a retired senior civil servant in his 80s, straightened his sensible cardigan sweater and railed unreservedly against President Pervez Musharraf.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    The lingering sting of tear gas hung in the air as Roedad Khan, a retired senior civil servant in his 80s, straightened his sensible cardigan sweater and railed unreservedly against President Pervez Musharraf. "He is shameless, simply shameless," said...

    Tags: Elections, Benazir Bhutto, Family, Los Angeles Times, Crime, Law and Justice

  18. Jun 15, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  19. Afghanistan's hidden treasures, hidden no more

    IN AN act that provoked worldwide outrage, the fundamentalist Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in March 2001 destroyed the monumental statues of Buddha that had been carved into the rock cliffs of Bamiyan 1,600 years ago. The shocking destruction was not an isolated event.
    Special to The Times
    IN AN act that provoked worldwide outrage, the fundamentalist Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in March 2001 destroyed the monumental statues of Buddha that had been carved into the rock cliffs of Bamiyan 1,600 years ago. The shocking destruction was not...

    Tags: Defense, Wars and Interventions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Terrorism, Arts and Culture

  20. Mar 24, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Those are fighting words in Pakistan

    Cut off from the world, even in parts of his own home, Aitzaz Ahsan did what many of his compatriots do in times of personal and political crisis: He wrote a poem. Months of house arrest had left the celebrated lawyer enraged over his isolation and the...

    Tags: Benazir Bhutto, Coup d'Etat, Crime, Law and Justice, Diplomacy, Lawyers

  22. May 30, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. 'Bigger, Stronger, Faster'

    Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 1980s saw an explosion of butt-kicking in America, observes Christopher Bell in the raucously funny and surprisingly insightful prologue to his debut documentary, "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*." And as a 12-year-old kid from a loving but undeniably short and doughy family in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,  Bell and his brothers were particularly susceptible to the message. As  he reminds us, the don't-mess-with-the-U.S. Reagan years were an overheated response to '70s downers such as the Iran hostage crisis. But for the Bell boys, it was simply a call to ripped, bulging arms.
    Times Movie Critic
    Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 1980s saw an explosion of butt-kicking in America, observes Christopher Bell in the raucously funny and surprisingly insightful prologue to his debut documentary, "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*."...

    Tags: Steroids, Family, Movies, Sports, Arnold Schwarzenegger

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