Word: expel
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...everyone looooves a peacekeeper. Need to expel some East Timorese? Get a solid start, then call the peacekeepers in, with red carpet to boot! Need to buff your Georgian signature on the Yalta Declaration of Liberated Europe? Call in the international observers! What are guns, we good liberal democrats ask, next to a balmy blue? Or physical power, next to the moral power of that noblest of all goddesses, the international community...
...service is just ludicrous enough to sour them on watching the show. The figures that in reality would be the real authority, and scary ones at that - the drill sergeants - are on Reality TV stripped of their realism, because they've been stripped of their power to expel. They become cartoonish. Ridiculous. Probstian...
...rebels. They were protesting plans to halve the size of the army as part of economic reforms backed by the imf and the World Bank. After a meeting between their leaders and Morautu, the soldiers agreed to hand back weapons they had seized but demanded that the government expel Australian and other foreign advisers and recall parliament...
...which bows in after the Super Bowl Jan. 28, before moving to Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T., some things remain familiar: 16 people still arrive in a remote setting with minimal supplies, divide into two tribes (Kucha and Ogakor--that's "kangaroo" and "crocodile" in Aborigine) and vote to expel members at tribal councils. They compete to win challenges designed around nature and the elements--in Water Torture, strong players are loaded down with heavy buckets of H2O. The grand prize is $1 million. And Jeff Probst, America's favorite tropical bartender, hosts...
ABORTION OPTION Last year when the FDA approved RU-486, it said the abortion pill should be taken with a second drug, misoprostol, to help expel the fetus. That didn't stop misoprostol's controversy-shy manufacturer, Searle, from warning doctors that the drug could harm pregnant women. Well, it doesn't seem to, according to a review of 200 studies that found misoprostol safe for a number of obstetrical uses, including labor induction and medical abortion...