Word: coupes
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That this invitation came from two of Harvard’s brightest academic stars helps explain how Harvard pulled off its latest hiring coup...
...It’s a major coup for us,” said Caramazza. “I think that Pinker’s coming will strengthen us in every area that needed strengthening...
Some Pentagon officials argue that the retreat of the regular Republican Guard could be a plus. As demoralized troops find themselves fighting for their lives in the capital, conditions could ripen for a coup. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld all but called for one, saying Iraqi forces "must now decide whether they want to share the fate of Saddam Hussein or whether they will turn on that condemned dictator and help the forces of Iraq's liberation." But Pentagon officials concede that the surprising resistance shown by the most loyal of Iraq's forces means that Washington cannot count...
...infidels have made war on an Islamic state. (One imagines that even the Kurds and Shi'ites have understandable qualms about our intentions.) Meanwhile, America's stature has been diminished in a number of ways by the psychological "shock and awe" campaign early on that didn't produce a coup or surrender or mass defections, by the constant quibbling over whether the images of Saddam were real or not, and by the very use of the term coalition to describe a force that was plainly Anglo-American. I suspect that we will long be haunted by the prediction of Egypt...
...Michigan—a school that had yet to win a conference title and was far from the nationally successful programs of UCLA and Cal State-Fullerton—because, as she describes it, it “just felt right.” Landing Allard was a big coup for the Wolverines, as she was the first big-time recruit to leave the cozy confines of California to take a chance on a program out east...