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...next day, Jones had lunch with the then-UC President to discuss the organization of a coup. Surprisingly, this person was unreceptive to Jones’s plan...
...Jones believes incoming UC President Max C. Flounder ’07 will be a cooperative comrade in the upcoming coup...
Chaos and violence descended upon Haiti in fall 1991, when a military coup toppled the fledgling elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide supporters fled the island to escape persecution by the new regime. A pregnant Pascal was beaten—leading to a miscarriage—and burned with cigarettes before she decided to leave her husband, two children, and mother behind in search of safety. Sailing northward on dangerous makeshift rafts, refugees were rounded up by the U.S. Coast Guard...
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR TOUGHEST MOMENT? I was in prison after an attempted coup in 1985 with about 12 other so-called rebels, all of whom were killed. At that point, I felt a bit of fear, I must admit. But I became more determined to continue until I got to the place where I could change things...
...Indeed, it doesn't actually book bets; rather, it matches up bettors, for a fee. The strategy has won it plaudits at home, including an award for enterprise from Queen Elizabeth. And it enabled the company to attract Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as financial advisers--a coup, given the nervousness of big U.S. banks about taking on clients in the offshore online-gaming sector...