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Man of the Year: Gen. Raheel Sharif Gen. Raheel Sharif is changing Pakistan forever. From under-trial Pervez Musharraf’s hospitalization at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology on Jan. 2 to the attempt on news anchor Hamid Mir’s life on April 19 to the launch of Operation Zarb-e-Azb in mid-June to the attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School on Dec. 16, the year past has been a period of extraordinary adjustments within Pakistan’s much disturbed civil-military equation. The year began badly enough with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif putting off his handpicked new Army chief, Gen. Rahe...

The Phoenix The Chamberlain Project has become the latest controversy on campus. The program, aimed to “assist in building relationships and understanding between the United States Armed Services and civilian institutions,” will potentially bring a retired military officer as a teaching fellow to campus. According to the Chamberlain Project’s website, past fellows have taught at peer institutions like Wesleyan, Amherst, and Hamilton. All of them have Ph.Ds and most of them have years of teaching experience. However, some students worry that the program would further promote an imperiali...

Rex Tillerson Fast Facts Here is a look at the life of former US Secretary of State and ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson. Personal Birth place: Wichita Falls, Texas Birth name: Rex Wayne Tillerson Father: Bob Tillerson, Boy Scouts of America executive Mother: Patty (Patton) Tillerson Children: Four children Other Facts Tillerson and his wife, Renda, operate a Texas horse ranch called Bar RR Ranches. Timeline 1987-1989 – Business development manager of Exxon’s domestic natural gas department. 1989-1992 – General manager for regional oil and gas production. 1992 – Production adviser for Ex...

Rex Tillerson Fast Facts Here is a look at the life of former US Secretary of State and ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson. Personal Birth place: Wichita Falls, Texas Birth name: Rex Wayne Tillerson Father: Bob Tillerson, Boy Scouts of America executive Mother: Patty (Patton) Tillerson Children: Four children Other Facts Tillerson and his wife, Renda, operate a Texas horse ranch called Bar RR Ranches. Timeline 1987-1989 – Business development manager of Exxon’s domestic natural gas department. 1989-1992 – General manager for regional oil and gas production. 1992 – Production adviser for Ex...

Say “labor” and “Akron” and the likely response will be “rubber.”  That’s as it should be, but in “Labor in Akron, 1825-1945” the historian John Tully reaches back far earlier, even as far back as the founding of the city. The laborers who dug the Ohio & Erie Canal, mostly Irish immigrants seeking opportunity after a famine and cholera epidemic, were paid a pittance and vulnerable to rattlesnakes and diseases like malaria. There were a few unorganized strikes, but conditions did not improve. Other early labor activities included the forming of a carpenters’ union in 1837 ...