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...power this past January—and restored power this past July. “We are at a critical junction as a nation,” Sirleaf said. Liberia was a relatively peaceful country from its founding by former African-American slaves in 1847 until a 1980 military coup overthew then-president William Tolbert. Sirleaf, who had served as finance minister in Tolbert’s government, fled to Kenya, where she worked for Citibank. She returned to her homeland briefly in the mid-1980s but was put under house arrest for opposing the military dictator. The country deteriorated...
...near midnight on Tuesday, tanks had rolled up to Bangkok's Government House and the monsoons were drenching the crowds. But the mood during Thailand's first military coup since 1991-the previous one eventually ended with protesters gunned down in the streets-was remarkably festive. Women in miniskirts posed for pictures in front of tanks, while elderly men in pajamas jabbered on cellphones. Last spring, hundreds of thousands of Thai citizens had organized daily peaceful protests on Bangkok streets, calling for the resignation of caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose popularity in urban areas had nosedived after the controversial...
...Blood and Iron Alfredo Stroessner, the durable military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989, died last month at age 93. Ten years after the general seized control in a palace coup, TIME discussed why Paraguay's past had made it vulnerable to Stroessner's brand of despotism...
...building off the Champs Elyses, Jabs, 42, explains how the beauty industry is undergoing a period of major change, with more and more niche brands and organic products on the market today compared with when she bought the then struggling 32-year-old company on a coup de coeur...
Target's Latest Design Coup...