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...question is, do we have a problem not with the brand, but with the product itself? And the answer to that is, yes, in part. We can't do anything about the fact that we are, for the moment, supporting a military leader in Pakistan who overthrew a democratically elected government.Or that we are cozying up to authoritarian leaders in Uzbekistan. But we can do what some have suggested: show what Islam is like in America. And that means to get American Muslims to talk about the freedom of worship in America. And to explain that America...
...eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from 1950 to 1956; near Port-au-Prince. The former general who overthrew civilian President Dumarsais Estime in 1950 oversaw Haiti's most marked period of prosperity, the result of a record influx of tourists and high coffee exports. But Hurricane Hazel in 1954 inflicted heavy damage on the country, and he was abandoned by his junta two years later. Exiled...
...Milosevic supporters resent seeing the former leader of their country, uniquely, put in the dock when so many other tyrants, from Fidel Castro to the late Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, have walked free. Vojislav Kostunica, the democratically elected President of Yugoslavia and hero of the people-power revolution that overthrew Milosevic, bitterly opposed sending him to a tribunal he regards as biased against Serbia. He called the deportation illegal and unconstitutional. It was. When the Serbian legislature, preferring that Milosevic be tried at home, declined to extradite him, the Serbian government ordered him extradited by decree. When the constitutional court...
...monumentally crooked Ferdinand Marcos, who was never even tried. Estrada's booze, women and illegitimate children somehow came off as charming, even in a resolutely Catholic nation. His vices certainly made him a man of the people, not the Establishment. Estrada himself characterized the People Power II revolution that overthrew him in January as the "text-messaging generation" against the "vacationless class...
...that is struggling to understand and accept its recent past. Yet Milosevic is behind bars where he belongs, and will stay there for the rest of his life; the publicity of his arrest, the overwhelming weight of evidence and the fact that he will be tried by those who overthrew him guarantee...