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...Washington Musharraf's performance over the past five months has absolved him of the taint of seizing power in a military coup in 1999. His support is growing at home as well; there's little nostalgia among ordinary Pakistanis for the endemic corruption that characterized the decade of civilian rule that preceded the coup, and his stand against extremism is popular...
Fetisov is determined to make it through this experience in the traditional Russian way--by suffering. It is his third act of patriotism. In addition to not defecting, he chose not to escape when he was caught in Moscow during the coup that took Gorbachev hostage. Instead, he and his wife went into the streets and stood in front of the tanks...
...explosions were set off by a fire spreading from a nearby market were "premature," said Defense Minister Theophilus Danjuma. As the shaken, rumor-filled city grieved for its dead, the commander of the Ikeja barracks appeared on state television and denied that the blasts were the start of a coup attempt against President Olusegun Obasanjo. As the week ended, the embattled leader?s troubles grew when national police - citing pay and other grievances - walked off the job in Lagos and other areas. After troops were ordered to assume police duties, the strike began to crumble. THE E.U. "Second Class...
...Mikhaela B. Reid ’02 is a social anthropology concentrator in Mather House and the former design editor of Diversity & Distinction magazine. She loves: The Boondocks, Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World, the Dead Kennedys, the Coup, Sherman Alexie, sewing magazines, peanut butter and trashy science fiction novels. She dislikes: Cathy (the comic strip), Barbie (the doll) and political cartoons about donkeys and elephants. She loathes with every fiber of her being: George W. Bush and his co-conspirators...
...guided me along. I'm very much my father's daughter. But a lot of people inspire me. I have great respect for the good former Presidents of my country. Corazon Aquino inspires me very much, being a woman leader and all. She was able to fend off seven coup attempts and emerge with a strong institution that she was able to pass on to her successor to help bring the economy back on track...