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...council will be paying Busta $40,000 for the concert, $10,000 less than his asking price. The council was able to pull off the financial coup by taking advantage of the fact that Busta already had a concert scheduled at Keane State College in New Hampshire tomorrow night, meaning that his transportation costs will be small...
...President and army general known as the "Butcher of Rangoon"; in Rangoon. A member of the military junta that seized control of Burma in 1962, Sein Lwin was behind some of the army's bloodiest massacres of civilians. These included the killings of hundreds of students protesting the 1962 coup and of an estimated 3,000 people in street demonstrations in 1988, during which Sein Lwin replaced strongman Ne Win as President. But he was unable to quell the political agitation and stepped down after only 18 days in office...
...another "bite at the cherry," as one U.N. official puts it, Greek Cypriots may be facing de facto permanent partition of their island, barring them from one of the most fertile and picturesque parts of their beloved homeland. Cyprus has been keeping international negotiators busy since an Athens-backed coup triggered the invasion of the northern part of the island by Turkish troops in 1974. Today, U.N. peacekeepers still keep the two sides apart along a fortified "green line" that runs the width of the island, trimmed with sandbags and razor wire. The Annan plan is the most ambitious effort...
...lose company did just that: €9 billion in debt and unexpectedly low tunnel traffic have whittled the stock price to as low as 32?. "The company has cash but it all goes to banks," says retired engineer Guy Ducreux, a 14-year Eurotunnel shareholder who supports the corporate coup. "The new board is a financial dream team." It had better be, if it's going to do what its predecessor could not: reduce Eurotunnel's crushing debt and its crippling costs, boost revenues and send its long-grounded stock price soaring. So far, that hasn't happened - the stock...
...Bulldogs’ admissions coup is virtually unprecedented...