Word: coups
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Sarkozy was of course anointed by a nice democratic margin, and his ratings (64%) should make George W. Bush pale with envy. Yet in a soft coup, Sarkozy has unhinged Article 21 of the French constitution, according to which the Prime Minister, and not the President, runs the show. Sarko is omnipresent and "omnipresident." He is his own cabinet...
...leave the day bereft of meaning, it's possible that there are deeper kinds of meaning to be had. On Sept. 5, German authorities announced the arrest of a group planning a series of terrorist attacks described as "massive" and "imminent." The day before, Denmark pulled off a similar coup, raiding 11 locations in Copenhagen and arresting eight people who had been storing "unstable explosives" in preparation for their own terrorist strike. Both groups are said to have links to al-Qaeda...
...IRGC's economic activities have expanded most significantly in the past five to six years. Originally created in 1979 as a parallel military to prevent the traditional armed forces from mounting a coup against the new regime, the Guard developed its assets and engineering capability during the Iran-Iraq War, growing into a 150,000-strong force that defended the country's borders with selflessness and revolutionary zeal...
...biggest star was Elvis, who had "died" two year before WWN was born. The weekly ran frequent stories about the singer ("Painting of Elvis Weeps Real Tears"), but its greatest news coup, and its top-selling issue, was the one that announced Presley was alive in a Kalamazoo, Mich., hideout. WWN's explanation of his 1977 disappearance - what was reported as his death - was typically ingenious. Building on the fact that Elvis had a twin brother Jesse who died at birth, WWN claimed that Jesse had in fact survived, brain damaged and hidden away, and that when Jesse died...
...Originally nominated in April by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, co-founder with Gul of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Gul's name on the slate evoked thinly veiled threats of a coup by Turkey's staunchly secularist military. Seeking a public mandate, Erdogan defiantly called early elections and, in what was widely seen as a popular snub to the military, the AKP was swept back into power with a resounding 47% of the vote. Erdogan then pushed ahead with Gul's nomination, despite calls to name a more centrist candidate to stand for a position which...