Word: coupes
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...over his country's rupture was a misunderstanding. There is "no reality," he said, to claims that the conflict is genocide, as President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have said. It is "a tribal conflict," said al-Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 coup. The Janjaweed are merely "outlaws or gangsters who are used to being on horseback and holding arms or guns. They are bandits," he said. "It was started by this rebel group that tried to avenge losses against another tribe. And naturally, when one tribe attacks another tribe, there will...
...Russian President Vladimir Putin's energetic support, Yanukovych has seemed out of his depth in the current political crisis. At one point last week, he pledged to support a free press and transfer some presidential powers to the legislature. Soon after, he denounced Yushchenko for trying to mount a "coup." But if his frequent calls to resolve the election dispute without violence are to be believed, perhaps Yanukovych really has left his troubled past behind. --By Daniel Eisenberg
...launching of the music library is a major technological coup, in addition to the previously announced deployment of extended wireless access in Houses by next fall and the new digitization collaboration with Google. These projects will result in tangible benefits for students and faculty. Harvard is on the right track with these developments and should continue pushing the envelope to become a campus on the cutting edge of technology...
...very apron crackling with anger," writes Travers. Says Fellowes: "That contrast between the tough, cross nanny whom the adults can accept and the magical woman who takes the children on these journeys is the wit of the character." Getting the show together in the first place was a coup de theatre. Mackintosh had secured the rights to stage the books, but Disney owned the Sherman Brothers songs from its film version. Neither party would entertain the idea of collaboration until Schumacher arranged a secret meeting with Mackintosh, and the pair discovered they shared an identical vision. "Neither...
...opponent and President Leonid Kuchma's handpicked successor. Two weeks ago, Ukraine's Supreme Court voided that result and called a new vote for Dec. 26. Since then Yushchenko has continued to gain strength - he says he'll take 60% of the vote - while Yanukovych mutters about a "soft coup d'?tat," and Kuchma keeps searching for a way out. The political stakes are extremely high - a nation's fate is at stake - but Zimpfer's announcement on Saturday proved that for Yushchenko, the personal stakes may be even higher. The amount of toxin in his bloodstream is so great...