Word: ouster
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...their outrage and compiling rap sheets of Lott's earlier comments. It took a few more days before Democrats denounced Lott and demanded a censure. More worrisome, some conservative leaders who have never regarded Lott as an effective leader weighed in. Pundits like William Bennett called for Lott's ouster from the Republican leadership, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page declared he had "played right into the hands" of the left. Even Lott's hometown paper, whose publisher these days is an African-American woman, called for him to resign as Senate leader. Lott, however, was convinced that...
...both years ahead of Iraq’s present development; North Korea probably already has a couple of nuclear bombs. The fate of all three countries, however, will largely be settled in Iraq. Over the past year, the United States has staked its credibility on Saddam’s ouster. He has become a symbol separate from the standard moral and practical arguments for war. Unless the United States proves its seriousness, American diplomacy in support of peace in East Asia and the Middle East will never rise above appeasement. Like Herbert’s half-wild dogs, the dictators...
...Seselj's silver-haired likeness at a vegetable market overlooking the Danube. "He is a true patriot." Authoritarian politics still has an audience in Serbia. But Seselj's re-emergence reflects a more general frustration among Serbian voters with their democratically elected leadership, which, two years after Milosevic's ouster, has yet to produce the kind of economic results that many Serbs had hoped for. Seselj insists he is running to flush out corruption and succor the poor. But for Serbs like Nikola Barovic, a human rights lawyer who was once kicked in the head by Seselj's bodyguard...
...despite last year’s NCAA ouster at the hands of the Huskies, Wheaton cautions not to read too much into their recent history...
...strategic choice challenged by increasingly influential Islamist parties. But from the point of view of those seeking efficient curbing of Indonesian extremism, the laxity shown by Megawati until now may be a symptom of the often volatile diffusion of power in Jakarta that began in 1998 with Suharto's ouster, when a nation deeply riven by political, social and ethnic divisions began moving awkwardly towards democracy. Now, as in Pakistan, terrorism, and the fight against it in Indonesia, may slow that transition...