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Think your layover was rough? TOM HANKS has been stuck at the airport since October. In The Terminal, a Steven Spielberg movie due out next summer, Hanks plays a traveler who is stranded at J.F.K. when a coup in his home country renders his passport worthless. At the airport, Hanks' character "is able to experience both the bounty and the falsehood of America," the actor says. The set is a 75,000-sq.-ft. terminal constructed inside a hangar in Palmdale, Calif. "There's a lot of very tasty restaurants in the food-court area," Hanks says. "Have...
While the United States is engrossed in other foreign policy commitments—from floundering negotiations with North Korea to the perilous occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan—it should not overlook the fact that the Caspian region is gripped by a bloodless coup that stands to push the region off the precipice into political meltdown. The potential for chaos reigning in Georgia must be stemmed and the first step is to prevent Russia’s lust for Georgia’s pipeline from throwing the country in further disarray...
Georgia’s population of five million has lived under a sunken economy and extremely poor government services under Shevardnadze’s nearly 12-year rule. But, according to Bezhuashvili, the coup represented an affirmation of the power of the vote and the strength of Georgian civil society and institutions...
...Like two-thirds of Harvard students, I did student government in high school. Senior year I instituted a coup and had the president overthrown by a friend of mine who was very competent. Those were heady days...
...Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho; kidnap gangs ran riot in Manila; power blackouts were predicted for vast stretches of the country. And the day Poe became a candidate, a shadowy group of soldiers released a manifesto threatening a coup if Arroyo didn't clean up the government...