Word: ouster
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...violence that has claimed 41 lives since Saturday and left the city paralyzed by a general strike on Monday began when MQM supporters took to the streets to prevent opposition supporters from welcoming Iftikhar Choudhry, the chief justice sacked by Musharraf two months ago, whose legal challenge to his ouster has become a rallying point for government opponents. Iftikhar was scheduled to attend the 50th anniversary of the Sindh High Court Bar Association in the city, but a couple of days before his arrival, the MQM announced plans to hold a rally at the same time to challenge the opposition...
...sides by the wide, caramel-colored waters of the Tigris and surrounded by high cement walls, the 4-sq.-mi. Green Zone (officially called the International Zone) sits in the middle of Baghdad and is home to thousands of people, including many members of the Iraqi government. Since the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the Green Zone has been the seat of U.S. power in Iraq, first in the form of the ill-fated Coalition Provisional Authority and now the 1,500-person U.S. embassy, the biggest in the world. To most visiting American dignitaries, the placid, palm-lined streets...
...Signers of the letter says that it is also aimed at fellow Republicans - and especially G.O.P. members of Congress - whom they hope to encourage to call for the Attorney General's ouster, a step they argue is crucial to ending damage to the Department of Justice, as well as G.O.P. standing on Capitol Hill...
That turnaround is especially sweet for Drexler, who arrived at J. Crew with a down-and-out story of his own, having weathered a two-year slump and ouster at Gap, the company he built into a $14 billion icon over 19 years, most spent as president and ceo. Today, while Gap flails--in January it got rid of Paul Pressler, the CEO brought in to replace Drexler--J. Crew, with only 226 stores, is one of few companies in the overdeveloped specialty-apparel arena with the potential for real growth...
...rebuffed the lawmakers' suggestion, he was fired. (Iglesias, a Navy Reserve member, was one of the models for the Tom Cruise character in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men.) Several of his fellow U.S. attorneys, who were also pushed out, had been investigating Republican lawmakers prior to their ouster...