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Cyr: Pakistan needs peaceful transition of power

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:17:08 -0400

By ARTHUR I. CYR - Pakistan's National Assembly elections on May 11 provided a significant victory to Nawaz Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party. Despite violence, turnout was approximately 60 percent. A peaceful power transition from the governing Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to this opposition party means progress from the nation's history of military coups. Sharif and his chief political rival, Imran Khan, have pledged to work together.

Thomasson: Hearings highlight lack of security for U.S....

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:51:14 -0400

By DAN K. THOMASSON - Gregory Hicks' account of what amounts to State Department security failures in the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, that cost the life of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others proved to be riveting testimony before a congressional committee recently.

Textbook sales profit stands up, but problems linger

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:48:03 -0400

When Supap Kirtsaeng moved to the U.S. in 1997 to study math at Cornell University, the citizen of Thailand realized that he could get textbooks cheaper back home. - He asked friends and family to buy low-priced copies of foreign edition English language textbooks and mail them to him. He then sold the books here, paid back the senders and kept the profit.

Maxwell: For conservatives, it's all about race

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:17:10 -0400

By BILL MAXWELL - When I was a journalism professor in 2005 at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, a white student from the University of Alabama came to my campus and handed me a bullet-ridden sheet of standard copy paper.