Word: bitter
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...landslide as President of South Africa. Barring an upset, however, these are Mbeki's last days as leader of the party that defined South Africa's liberation struggle. The ANC will elect its next President later this month at a party congress, and Mbeki's party deputy and bitter rival Jacob Zuma has already established a crushing lead over the incumbent. Mbeki will continue as South Africa's President until 2009, when the constitution demands he relinquish that post too. Yet even as they prepare for his long goodbye, few South Africans could tell you much about who Mbeki...
...travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." During the long, bitter years when Gordon Brown hungered for the top job in British politics, he'd never have agreed with this sentiment framed by a fellow Scot, 19th century author Robert Louis Stevenson. After Brown finally collected the keys to 10 Downing Street on June 27, his first three months in office exceeded expectations - his and his country's. Many Britons, even those who rejoiced at Tony Blair's exit, had worried that their brainy, brawny Chancellor of the Exchequer was too complex and introspective to make an effective...
...radical Islamist regime, and Ethiopia received significant U.S. logistical support as the operation unfolded. But today the East African nation--indeed, the whole Horn of Africa--is again in chaos. Ethiopia and Eritrea, which split from Ethiopia in 1993, are on the verge of war (they fought a bitter conflict from 1998 to 2000), and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer has said that she is considering naming Eritrea a state sponsor of terrorism. Somalia itself is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis; according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
...than a recommendation from a friend," he says. To allay privacy concerns, Facebook makes sharing your shopping habits optional, but it's betting that for the bare-it-all generation growing up on social networks, broadcasting what you buy will seem as natural as posting the details of a bitter breakup--or what you ate for breakfast...
...could have been the happily-ever-after ending to a fairytale-like career. After being forced to miss his entire sophomore season due to injury, senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti stood triumphantly undefeated at the center of the Yale Bowl before 57,248 fans after besting ugly stepsister and bitter rival Yale 37-6 for the Ivy League championship. It could have been the perfect career-ending moment. But it wasn’t, because Pizzotti will be back again next year for his fifth season and to lead Harvard in another quest for the Ivy crown...