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Bobo has had a standing offer to return to Harvard since his departure. Morgan was offered a tenured professorship at Harvard this May after her case was approved by Derek C. Bok, then the University’s interim president...
This week marked the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, the long-awaited pronouncement of the “Iraq Report Card,” and the return of students to Harvard. Despite the media frenzy around world events, the number of open-list emails exchanged on everything from Gen. David Petraeus to Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and the ample free time afforded by “Camp Harvard,” chatter around campus centers on lofting beds and where the best final club party is. Wide-eyed first-years and jaded upperclassmen left dissent at home...
Benazir Bhutto has always had a knack for pleasing the crowds. For months the former Pakistani Prime Minister, who has lived in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai since 1999, has hinted at an eventual return to her beloved homeland. She would lead her country to democracy, she promised, but was always coy about when, exactly, she would start. On Friday, in a series of carefully orchestrated simultaneous press conferences held in eight Pakistani cities, Bhutto's Pakistan People?s Party announced the long-awaited date: October 18. Any subsequent information they may have wanted to express was drowned...
...sundown on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The good Muslims in her audience hadn?t touched food, drink or cigarettes since dawn. And so, the post press-conference invitation to a traditional sundown feast was met with more cheers than the announcement of her return - proof that she knows what will please a crowd...
...There are many political uncertainties to come in the next few weeks - the announcement of presidential elections, Supreme Court rulings on Musharraf?s ability to run for another term while maintaining the office of Army Chief, and a contempt of court case against the government for preventing Sharif?s return among them - but whatever happens, the events will be exhaustively covered by a brand-new press corps, an unpredictable new factor in Pakistani political life that neither Sharif nor Bhutto ever faced...