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...more than doubled the first year. Saint Laurent hung on to control of his first love, the couture house, which ran at a loss of $11 million a year. It will not continue beyond him. Couture has been pronounced dead many times before, but his departure may be the coup de grace. With an emphasis on the grace...
...constituency-held seats in June 2000 elections. Since then bands of ZANU-PF thugs have attacked opposition offices and attempted to intimidate voters in MDC areas. In support of Mugabe's continued tenure as President, Commander General of the Defense Force General Vitalis Zvinavashe hinted at an army coup should the election result not please the military. He issued a statement saying that since the President is expected to observe the objectives of the liberation struggle, "we will therefore not accept, let alone support," anyone who had not fought in the independence movement. Tsvangirai was a labor activist during...
...fact, since Musharraf took over the country in a bloodless coup in 1999, he has wanted to crack down on the country's extremist religious groups, which often feed people into militant organizations, including those fighting for Kashmir. It's not a task for the fainthearted. Three weeks ago, the brother of Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider was gunned down in the port city of Karachi because, police believe, Haider was outspoken against fanatical religious groups...
...Muslim nation. One governs the world's most populous democracy, the other rules by diktat. India's leader is 20 years older and the frail veteran of 47 years in politics; Pakistan's is a fit career soldier whose political life began just two years ago in a military coup. Vajpayee is a master orator given to flights of poetry; Musharraf is a plainspoken man with a blunt, forthright style. The first has succeeded by adroitly sidestepping conflict and finessing confrontation, the second by cutting straight to the core of a problem...
...fact, since Musharraf took over the country in a bloodless coup in 1999, he has wanted to crack down on the country's extremist religious groups, which often feed people into militant organizations, including those fighting for Kashmir. It's not a task for the fainthearted. Three weeks ago, the brother of Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider was gunned down in the port city of Karachi because, police believe, Haider was outspoken against fanatical religious groups...