MR. GREGORY:So let's get right to it. Winners and losers this week according to the AP. Liz Sidoti writes this:"The Winners: Obama: The new Democratic president used his popularity and bully pulpit to get the notoriously sluggish Congress to work through the huge package in relatively short order. The Losers: Obama: He spent weeks preaching of bipartisanship and spending political capital but reverted to combative, buck-stops-here talk when Republicans rebelled at the cost and scope of the plan."

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In a well-researched paper on rape laws in Pakistan, Professor Asifa Quraishi has - through a clause by clause comparison - aptly pointed out that except for the word 'zina-bil-jabar' substituted for rape, the Zia-era Hudood Ordinance is a ditto copy of British colonial law (circa 1860). It is also incomprehensible that if divine law had ordained four witnesses to prove a crime, why was this requirement changed by man to four male witnesses? It is not known if this change was based on any extensive theological and legal knowledge, but prime facie it is loaded against women.

What is missing in Clause 1 of Article 140-A is the word "legislate." If this word had been inserted before the word "establish," interpretation of the article would have been easier as "each province would be empowered to legislate and establish the local government system." The use of the word "establish" alone in the article invites a controversy as to whether to "establish" also means to "legislate" or not. During the Musharraf era,Michael Kors, it was the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) which proposed the design of the local government system later on established by provinces. Further, the Local Government Ordinance was re-enacted by the provinces to give a legal cover to the local government system devised by the NRB. That was how the word "establish" in the clause in question got justified.

The six older siblings seem happy with the babies and carry them around. Taghri is unsure of her other children's ages. "All we know is when we had our first son."