Word: coupes
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Over 250 people died in the violence following the presidential elections in Cote d'Ivoire on October 22. The unrest began when Gen. Robert Guei, leader of a coup that overthrew the government on Christmas Eve in 1999, declared himself the winner and dissolved the election commission just as exit polls indicated that Laurent Gbagbo of the Popular Front opposition party was leading. Hundreds of Ivorians took to the streets in a mass uprising that rivaled that of the Yugoslavs against Slobodan Milosevic. Military support for Guei was weak and eventually he fled the country, leaving Gbagbo to declare victory...
...statue of Jesus carried onto a bustling streetcar ("Illusion Travels by Streetcar," 1953), and a man viewing a priest's ritual cleaning and kissing of altar boys' feet leading to sexually charged stares between the man and the woman who will become his beloved ("El/This Strange Passion," 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in "Archibaldo de la Cruz" when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial killer, frightens a nun so badly she plunges down a deep elevator shaft - producing, in most cinemas, a hearty round of laughter...
...believe this litigation is a good idea. But what is the alternative? Military coup? War is diplomacy by other means. Post-election lawsuits are democracy by other means...
...confusion in Florida has postponed all that, at least for while. Powell doesn't want to be a part of anything presumptive, and that has given Bush another opportunity: to see if he can talk Democrat Sam Nunn into joining his team. It would be something of a mini-coup. Nunn spent 18 years in the Senate and was his party's pivotal player on national security for most of that period. But would Nunn do it? When Clinton came in eight years ago, Nunn wanted State, not Defense. And then he tangled with Clinton over gays and the military...
...past his floundering campaign and into a second term. Finally, there was Ken Starr, the rosy-cheeked champion of law and order--beaten, in the end, as the perjured, priapic president cast himself (ah, irony!) as the defender of the Constitution and the rule of law against a Republican coup-d'etat...