Word: etat
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After the coup d'etat in Venezuela, thousands of democracy fighters demonstrated their support for the government [NOTEBOOK, April 22]. President Hugo Chavez should remain in office until the last day of the term to which he was democratically elected. His days will not be the same sort that other deposed leaders had to live through. ROBERTO F. LETAMENDI Aptos, Calif...
...none other than Gossip Guy stalwart William K. Weaver ’98-’03, who won a date at Bartley’s with the comely Melissa I. Wang ’02. Between egregious misuses of the phrase “coup d’etat,” a pantsless Weaver reeled off bon mots like “I’ll knock the bottom out of that ass” and “If your room flooded, I’d buy you a Little Mermaid costume—and then we?...
...young prince, known as Zhu Di. He was castrated and destined for a life serving with other eunuchs in the imperial household, guarding the harem and offering wisdom to the dynastic clan. Somehow the prince and the castrate became friends and when Zhu Di launched a coup d'Etat in 1402, Ma was at his side. The prince, who became the Yongle Emperor, awarded Ma an honorific surname Zheng and made him head eunuch. When the Emperor sketched out a plan for Chinese ships to sail to the Indian Ocean, he named his loyal charge to lead the fleet...
...suddenly one afternoon in August 1972. A few years earlier, she had been allowed to return to the home of General Mohammed Oufkir, her father. Oufkir, Morocco's feared police chief and Defense Minister, tried to seize power by having the King's plane shot down. The coup d'etat failed, and Oufkir was summarily executed. Exacting further vengeance for the betrayal, Hassan II had Oufkir's wife and six children banished to a series of desert prisons. In 1987, Malika and three of her siblings briefly escaped and alerted the world to their plight, forcing Hassan II eventually...
...embodied the tortured contradictions of contemporary Japan as completely as Mishima, the homosexual who worried about Japan's effeminate image, the sickly aesthete who turned himself into a modern-day samurai and in 1970 finally committed seppuku, the ancient samurai ritual suicide, after failing to inspire a coup d'Etat. Mishima was thoroughly steeped in the traditions of Western literature - his early work shows the imprint of Oscar Wilde and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is wholly Dostoyevskian - but he was obsessed with the notion of purifying the national character and returning Japan to its pre-Meiji era values...