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...VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW As a play for viewers, it was pretty transparent. (So was the clothing.) As advertising, it was a coup: over 12 million (more than half of them women) watched what amounted to an hour-long underwear...
...duty cop told TIME. But 20 minutes after the initial blasts, as police and ambulance attended to the dead and injured, a third blast blew up a car parked 300 feet north of Ben Yehuda. That explosion, which some witnesses believe was meant as a kind of coup de grace, injured only one person. But the first two had a huge toll, at least eight dead and 180 injured. On Thursday, another bomb attack had killed three people. The Israeli Minister of Defense announced that he will conduct a meeting with the heads of army and security forces to decide...
...anti-Soviet mujahedeen - and right now its the latter who are reclaiming power. King Zahir Shah, who the U.S. hopes will return from exile in Rome and lead a democratic renaissance, was overthrown in 1973 by his cousin, Mohammed Daoud, who was himself overthrown by a communist military coup in 1978. But as infighting among two rival communist factions became more violent and chaotic, the Soviets invaded in 1979 and installed their preferred faction. That united a plethora of mujahedeen groups, who, with the backing of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. - and, separately, Iran - managed to drive...
...this shadowy war, the Taliban's intelligence chief, Qari Ahmadullah, has scored some impressive hits. His biggest coup: catching Abdul Haq, 43, the Pashtun commander who slipped into Afghanistan two weeks ago to lay the groundwork for a revolt against the Taliban. Afghan sources tell TIME that Taliban spies dangled a juicy piece of bait in front of Haq: several regional Taliban commanders were ready to defect...
...could be any cutting edge, industry-created rock band. But as the video ends, roadies or studio workers (?) come and snatch the instruments away from these young rockers, unplug the amplifiers and monitors, and attempt to carry the lead singer off, causing pandemonium on the stage. And the coup is: This handsome rock group is not New Order. Because the irony of the video is undetectable to a younger market unaware of New Order’s heyday two deacdes before, the band have maintained their signature question mark and enigma. In addition, it is a brilliant marketing device...