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...Barely five days after she was sworn in, the Philippines' President Gloria Arroyo was having to reassure the nation that she wasn't about to be overthrown in a coup. Arroyo took the bizarre step Thursday of taking out a cell phone during a presidential press conference and calling the general suspected of plotting her overthrow. "Are you going to stage a coup against me?" she asked General Edgardo Espinosa of the Marines. Listening for a moment, she then assured her audience that a coup was "beyond the general's imagination." Needless to say, that display didn't exactly allay...
...bigger coup that year was the donation of a valuable collection of 3,000 Jewish books and manuscripts that were previously owned by a European book collector and had been purchased wholesale after the war by a graduate of the College. The donated collection allowed Metcalf to boast that "the College Library now has one of the outstanding Hebrew collections in the United States...
...become a caricature of the man he'd replaced. He headed up a corrupt, inept and duplicitous government that delivered little to its long-suffering people except more war. Kabila was reportedly shot dead Tuesday by one of his bodyguards, in what may have been part of a coup attempt. His government is still denying the reports, although on Wednesday it named Kabila's son, Joseph as acting head of state...
...what struck home first - a lithe, energetic brunette with a white streak running through the front of her manelike hair, clad in a series of outlandish, eye-catching outfits. Her songs were the next aspect to register - an assortment of well-crafted pop tunes with clearly salacious overtones. The coup de grace was the interview segment, in which the sexpot singer talked quietly and sweetly about her career, her fans and her then controversial image. The show's apparently minimal budget, erratic choreography and abysmal sound quality made the experience all the more charming. Thalía's one number...
...bitter irony is that they were indeed guilty of other, real crimes: they all took part in the coup d'état otherwise known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. They all covered their hands in innocent blood when their Communist Party provoked civil war, unleashed Red terror or ordered collectivization, which resulted in mass exiles, executions and famines that claimed millions of lives. But accusing them of the real crimes they had committed was tantamount to self-accusation on the part of the party and the Soviet state they had so faithfully served. They were executed on the grounds...