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Welcoming the New Year; "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning.(Chaff from the Grain)

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From: Manila Bulletin
Date: 20080101
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Byline: HECTOR R.R. VILLANUEVA

IT would have been an auspicious sendoff for 2008 if the year-ending 2007 was not marred by the unexpected and brutal assassination last December 27 of Ms. Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister and most likely the next prime minister of Pakistan after eight years of exile.

With over 200 trained suicide bombers, domiciled in Pakistan, and belonging to alQaeda, Taliban, extremist Islamists, as well as the military, and political rival Nawaz Sharif, himself a former prime minister sent to exile to Saudi Arabia by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the ...

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