A belated Happy New Year. (Or an early Chinese New Year, whichever you prefer ( Read more... )

I feel as if I've been hit on the head with a hammer. Benazir Bhutto, head of the PPP, was assassinated at an election rally in Rawalpindi. It shouldn't come as a surprise; nevertheless, I am in shock.

I realize she was corrupt (what politician isn't?), but I liked her. I believed in her. And how amazing was it, would it have been, to have a ( Read more... )

Cross-posted from a linguistics forum ( Read more... )