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...when he suspended the independent-minded Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. That sparked massive protests by moderate Pakistanis, the people who had once backed the general against al-Qaeda terrorists and Taliban militants. With a general election looming in Pakistan, the Bush Administration began to write a new cover story, giving its hero an unlikely sidekick: exiled opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whom Musharraf had long accused of corruption and misrule. The new script called for Musharraf to step down as head of the army but stay on as President, with Bhutto returning...
...Late Night with Conan O'Brien - draw the young viewers TV has had the hardest time keeping. (The shows may return early, heavy on interviews and light on gags.) For these fans, TV is just one option in a big digital menu. Without an army of Cyranos to write Jon's, Stephen's and Conan's jokes, those viewers could find watching them an easy habit to break. No, they won't quit TV altogether. But they'll be glad to ditch their shakier TV commitments and click over to MySpace or Second Life. And the advertisers will gladly follow...
...write about the '60s now? -Arthur Rice, Westerville, Ohio It's the 40th anniversary of 1968 next year. And all but one of the presidential candidates-Barack Obama is the exception-are people who came of age during that time. That decade was the first full-throated roar of the baby boomer generation...
...journalists? -Jen Ayres, Columbia, Mo. Get a broad base of education. I'm not a big fan of journalism schools except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science-and biology, these days-and then learn to write...
...play A Game at Chess, which satirized the tense Anglo-Spanish relations at the time, was the biggest box-office hit of the era - but it landed him in prison on charges of attempting to provoke public unrest. Unlike some of his fellow playwrights, Middleton dared to write about actual people and current events. This willingness to court controversy led some of his works to be banned or burned, which has made it all the harder for later scholars to reconstruct his oeuvre. There were several attempts in the 20th century to put together his complete works, all of them...