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Driving in Northern Tehran with family one weekend this summer, we passed a former palace of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi—who came to power after a 1953 coup orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence toppled the democratically-elected Mossadeq government—had dozens of palaces, all throughout Iran. The palaces, situated on large tracts of land, are surrounded by towering walls, which serve as an aggressive delineation of space reserved for one man in a country crowded with the poor...
...more organic and soy-based options,” Harvard University Dining Services has pulled the cereal of our youth from the shelves and replaced it with a rag-tag army of Mateys, Bursts and Zings. While there are those who heartily resist this cereal coup d’etat, an equally vociferous camp welcomes the morsel metamorphosis with open arms and an oversized spoon. This week, FM pits Chris Schonberger ’06 and Andrew L. Kreicher ’06 against each other in a no-holds-barred, winner-take...
...year and accuses the rebels, who control mountainous central Darfur, of committing raids and kidnappings of their own. Aid agencies agree that the rebels are guilty of attacks, including, last week, the first outside Darfur. Khartoum says the rebels are funded by Hassan al-Turabi, who supported the 1989 coup that installed al-Bashir as President but has since fallen out with the government. The war in Darfur, say government insiders and opposition figures, is a proxy battle for power in Khartoum. "This is a war that the rebels want to fight inside villages," says El Tijani Fedail, Sudan...
...that Dawson didn’t have a role in taking the decision out of Fitzpatrick’s hands. Two plays following Crusader wide receiver Sean Gruber’s fumble in the endzone, Dawson delivered the coup de grâce, smashing through three tackles—including a final ankle grip that all but stopped his forward progress—before leaving the secondary 20 yards behind and scampering 74 yards to put the contest out of reach...
...pending. SENTENCED. SIMON MANN, 51, British former special forces soldier and supplier of security and military services; to seven years in prison; in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mann was arrested in March at Harare airport as he tried to take delivery of a $180,000 arms consignment, allegedly for a coup in Equatorial Guinea. The 65 suspected mercenaries arrested along with him were sentenced to 12 months in prison. RETIRING. MICHAEL EISNER, 62, CEO of the Walt Disney Co. for 20 years; when his contract expires in September 2006; in Los Angeles. Although he is credited with transforming the company into...