Word: ousting
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...departure also comes conveniently at the tail end of the August doldrums, with Washington still on summer recess and much of the country on vacation. Better to make the move now, the White House figured, than wait for Congress to return and perhaps renew its campaign to oust Gonzales. "You're not going to make a decision with the tip of a bayonet in your face," says a former senior official...
...Afghanistan - a U.S. report issued two weeks ago warned that al-Qaeda and the Taliban had reconstituted in the area - but also from Pakistan's middle-class moderates, who are angry with the President for what they see as his ham-fisted attempts over the past four months to oust the country's chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, a potential obstacle to Musharraf's plans for re-election...
...months, al-Maliki has moved from 'You can't go after al-Sadr' to seeing [al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia] as a serious threat to his power," Ambassador Crocker told me in Baghdad a few weeks ago. Both al-Maliki and al-Sadr are plotting and scheming to oust each other. The Sadrist parliamentary bloc is planning to force a no-confidence vote on al-Maliki that could conceivably bring down the government. Given the amount of time it takes for the Iraqis to organize a ruling coalition--5 1/2 months last time--President Bush may find himself alone...
...Sources close to the mayor confirm that Bloomberg is not interested in trying to oust newly elected Democratic governor Eliot Spitzer from his job. "He's become the Paris Hilton of politics - people love to speculate about him," says one source, who adds that Bloomberg, a nominal Republican, is preparing to throw himself into the presidential race next spring, if he sees an opening. He's told people privately that he'd be willing to spend $500 million or more to finance an independent, third-party presidential campaign - to collect the signatures needed to get him on the ballot...
Archbishop Pius Ncube, 50, occupies a curious position in Zimbabwe. He is one of President Robert Mugabe's most outspoken critics, and this year offered to lead a street campaign to oust him. So far Ncube has been untouched by the repression that has befallen other opposition figures. Possibly this is because Ncube can be just as scathing about the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.). Possibly it is because he is a Roman Catholic, the religion in which Mugabe was raised. There are signs that his religion may not protect him for much longer, however. On Saturday, Mugabe told...