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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Quick, sell all my Amazon!" b) "I've also cut my cholesterol level, but no one cares" c) He's prepared to cut rates again d) "L'etat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jan. 15, 2001 | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...votes, throwing Gore a lifeline, while the court's own chief justice warned that its ruling "propels this country and this state into an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis." Bush allies like Jack Kemp tried to discredit the court, charging that it had carried out a "judicial coup d'etat." But then the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the sanctity of the election procedures, questioning the legality of the recount and bailing out Bush while the liberal dissenters warned that "preventing a recount from being completed will inevitably cast a cloud on the legitimacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Flipping The Script | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...floundering campaign and into a second term. Finally, there was Ken Starr, the rosy-cheeked champion of law and order--beaten, in the end, as the perjured, priapic president cast himself (ah, irony!) as the defender of the Constitution and the rule of law against a Republican coup-d'etat...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Why I'll Miss Bill Clinton | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...more than pique that's prompting Fujimori to seek a word with Montesinos. Throughout the recent constitutional crisis, there has been a fear that the former intelligence chief could lead a coup d'etat by calling in favors from the military's top commanders who are, for the most part, his personal appointees. Coup rumors have been rife since the return of Montesinos, and Fujimori claims to be trying to get his former enforcer to "contact the authorities" to lay such rumors to rest. The president did, for good measure, order the military confined to barracks while he goes knocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Peru's President Comes Knocking, It's Not to Get Out the Vote | 10/26/2000 | See Source »

...Plenty Of Yolks" b) "Coop D'Etat" c) "Now Hatching...Oscar!" d) "Sure to Crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jul. 3, 2000 | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

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