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...sets about building a new government, the tycoon Berezovsky yesterday dealt Yeltsin a stunning political blow by being appointed secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. ?From a standing start, Berezovsky in 10 days managed to persuade 11 presidents of former Soviet Republics to present Yeltsin with an unpalatable fait accompli,? says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. ?Berezovsky ran rings around Yeltsin...
...tenuous. Starr also arguably subverted the protections built into the independent-counsel law by making it impossible for the Justice Department to conduct its own investigation, as it is legally required to, before he started taping Lewinsky. "It sounds like the Justice Department was presented with a fait accompli," says Wake Forest University professor Katy Harriger, author of a book on independent counsels...
...announced like a fait accompli," said Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Marcus Moseley, who has lived at the University's Botanic Gardens complex for two years. "There were immediate strong protests from the residents...
...enthusiasm two years ago, The Game this year was somewhat of a fait accompli before it began, or at least after the first two minutes, and Harvard's dominance put victory into perspective. What was at stake on Saturday afternoon beside an insular history? Winning the Yale game two years ago, and last year for that matter, was exciting because of the elitist pride over who was less mediocre in the World of Two that was at stake. This year, the excitement was absent because we knew the victor before the coin toss. Paradoxically, when something greater than The Game...
...plan was to have Armey, DeLay, Boehner and Paxon present Gingrich with a fait accompli: step aside or be voted out by parliamentary maneuver. What happened next is murky. By some accounts, when DeLay reported back to his fellow leaders later that Thursday night, he brought news that the rebels wanted Gingrich to be succeeded by Paxon, not Armey, who was next in line. Early Friday, Armey told his colleagues that he spent the night "praying with my wife" and decided he could not support the coup. "When Armey realized he wasn't going to be Speaker, he backed...