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...poll. An attempt by former president Henri Konan Bédié to exclude Outtara from the last election had prompted General Gueï's coup, but the general had then held the reins himself rather than hand over to Outtara. The only way out the mess, according to the international community and Ivory Coast's French-speaking neighbors, is to hold new elections. But Gbagbo isn't having any of it. Once the most prosperous and stable state in West Africa, the Ivory Coast has been in an economic decline that has brought political turmoil. Its initial economic successes...
...blast tore a 40-ft. by 40-ft. hole in the port side of the Cole, shoving one of the ship's decks upward and destroying an engine room and an adjoining mess area. Sailors not maimed by the explosion and flying shrapnel had only an instant to scramble to safety before water rushed into the gaping hole and engulfed them. The attack killed 17 sailors and injured 38 more. As the Cole, a $1 billion destroyer armed with an assortment of high-caliber machine guns, surface-to-air missiles and advanced radar equipment, listed sickeningly to port, crew members...
...this get-out-and-vote rhetoric in seventh grade, when my civics teacher told our class that, if we didn't vote, we'd forfeit our right to complain. There is no more effective scare tactic on a class filled with 13-year-old Jewish boys, other than to mess with our Bar Mitzvah money. But voting so that you can whine is probably not what the framers had in mind. I don't remember seeing the phrase "bitching and moaning" anywhere in the Bill of Rights. Besides, voting actually endangers your right to complain because you might vote...
...Plus it usually requires walking into a public school, which isn't something most people ever want to do again, especially if they had Mr. Convery. Luckily, we can afford to stay home because things are going well and we know from Minnesota that no leader can mess it up too badly. While this election might matter to you if you're gay or an N.R.A. member, for the rest of us, as well as gay N.R.A. members, it's a wash. Our desire to avoid change gave us two bland, ineffectual candidates. Not committing to one of them...
Marketing experts say you shouldn't mess with an internationally recognized logo, but one of the most famous may be on the way out: the RED CROSS...