Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...angry with President Powell for having broken up their games. Would there be a proliferation of parties, turning American democracy into a version of Italy's fractured, shifting coalition style? Friends counter that Powell could form a bipartisan government of national reconciliation. But he has known many Third World coup leaders who say they have taken power to achieve national reconciliation...
...Clinton Administration views the results with measured pride and optimism -- and no doubt relief. When the President sent the troops to Haiti to accompany Aristide, who had been ousted in a military coup, thoughts of the debacle in Somalia were still fresh in the minds of critics and supporters. But the U.S. has taken only two casualties, and so far the intervention appears to have been a success. Accompanied by American and U.N. power, Aristide has been able to maintain peace while disbanding the army and driving political thugs either into exile or underground. Even the U.S. "exit strategy" seems...
Gates used his pull to bring in Harvard's most famous visiting faculty member, filmmaker Spike Lee. And Princeton University scholar Cornel R. West, author of "Colored People," joined the faculty in another coup for Harvard last year...
...served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton of The Razor's Edge on the fashion-obsessed real estate heir. But Zipkin's greatest coup was his relationship with Nancy Reagan. He was with the First Family on the night they captured that title; in the following years, Mrs. Reagan dished and danced with Zipkin so regularly that he became known as "the other man in her life...
...really happy to have [Mikva and Kearse]," Henshon said. "Getting them both was a real coup...