Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf “remains a dictator†at heart even though he is “out of uniform and officeâ€, PML-N spokesman Ahsan Iqbal has stated. “General (r) Musharraf, by expressing his desire that he would see his opponents thrashed, demonstrates that even out of uniform and office he remains a dictator within,†The Nation quoted [...]
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“Musharraf remains a dictator within despite being out of uniform and officeâ€: PML
November 20th, 2010 |
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40 Hot Women in Uniform
April 21st, 2010 |
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Who doesn’t love women in uniform? We know we do, and since not all girls in official garb are what you’d call hot, we went ahead and filled in the ranks with some luscious wannabes to even things out.
Å utanovac: Trust restored in army
March 20th, 2010 |
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Defense Minister Dragan Å utanovac said that the recent increase in soldiers serving military duties in uniform shows that trust has been restored to the army. He said that the March class will be one of the last to serve a military term in uniform before the military goes professional, adding that he wants their time in uniform to remain a positive memory.
Romanian mayor in Nazi dress row
July 21st, 2009 |
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A Romanian mayor has been strongly criticised by Jewish groups after appearing dressed in a Nazi uniform at a local fashion show.
Radu Mazare, mayor of Constanza, appeared with his similarly dressed 15-year-old son at the event.
The Simon Wiesenthal human rights centre called on Mr Mazare to admit he made a mistake, apologise and resign.
Mr Mazare said he had been inspired by the film Valkyrie, about an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler.
He added that the uniform was a German army one, not that of an SS officer. And, he said, he had attempted to cover up all the swastikas, although he said he had missed a very small one on the belt.
Dr Efraim Zuroff, a Holocaust historian and the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, expressed "insult and outrage" at the mayor’s appearance.
In a letter to Mr Mazare, he wrote: "It would be hard to adequately describe the depth of the pain that your appearance caused, not only to Jews and other victims of Nazism, but to any person of moral integrity who knows the history of World War II.
"Today it is well-known that the Wehrmacht played an active role in the mass murder of European Jewry and many other innocent victims.
"By dressing in a Wehrmacht uniform, you are expressing totally unwarranted support and nostalgia for an army which committed the most terrible war acts of genocide."
Dr Zuroff suggested Mr Mazare could make amends for his "incredible lack of judgement" by bringing an exhibition on the crimes of the German army to Romania.
Romania was a German ally in 1940 but switched sides just before the war ended.
An international commission chaired by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel concluded in 2004 that the Romanian authorities had killed up to 380,000 Jews in territories under their control.
Nowadays, the Jewish community there numbers between 9,000 and 10,000.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Science Weekly: In search of time
July 13th, 2009 |
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What it time? Is it the uniform, steady flow envisaged by Newton that helps us follow our daily routines? A spooky, purely subjective feeling? A dimension of Einstein’s space-time? Or simply the phenomenon that stops everything from happening all at once?
Science writer Dan Falk is on hand to discuss the neuroscience, the physics and the philosophy of chronology and poses the question – do we really know what time is?
James Randerson and Nell Boase join Alok for a round-up of the week’s science news including claims that vegetarians are 45% less likely to develop cancer of the blood compared with meat eaters, a monster haul of new dinosaur species discovered in the Australian outback, and the G8 nations’ battle with climate change.
We also visit the Royal Society’s Summer Exhibition to sink our teeth into some of the latest creations of science. Among the exhibits were a virtual cow, lasers that can treat cancer – and a very excitable and science-literate bunch of schoolchildren.
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