Word: overthrew
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...radical Islamist challenge in Pakistan originates, in its current form, with the regime of General Zia ul Haq, who ruled from 1977 until his death 1989. General Zia overthrew the elected leftist government of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and began cultivating Islamist groups as a counterweight to the challenge from the left. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 made General Zia the key U.S. ally in the region, providing a staging ground for efforts to assist the Afghan mujahedeen - a process that dramatically expanded the conservative Islamist infrastructure in Western Pakistan with massive Saudi funding...
...Person of the Year is the one who, for better or for worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year. But when Ayatullah Khomeini was chosen, many readers could not accept the "or worse" provision. Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran and gripped the nation in a despotic, anti-Western regime. With his blessing, militants held 52 Americans hostage for months. TIME received 5,200 letters--far more than for any other Person of the Year--most of them protesting the selection...
...ethnic nationalism, asserting that people would realize they were linked by economic interests rather than birth or blood. Freud prophesized the end of religious fundamentalism, claiming that belief in a literal God would fall away with the understanding of psychology. And, finally, Einstein's theory of relativity overthrew the concept that time and space were fixed and unvarying, undermining the idea that there was such a thing as absolute truth and pure objectivity...
...question is, do we have a problem not with the brand, but with the product itself? And the answer to that is, yes, in part. We can't do anything about the fact that we are, for the moment, supporting a military leader in Pakistan who overthrew a democratically elected government.Or that we are cozying up to authoritarian leaders in Uzbekistan. But we can do what some have suggested: show what Islam is like in America. And that means to get American Muslims to talk about the freedom of worship in America. And to explain that America...
...eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from 1950 to 1956; near Port-au-Prince. The former general who overthrew civilian President Dumarsais Estime in 1950 oversaw Haiti's most marked period of prosperity, the result of a record influx of tourists and high coffee exports. But Hurricane Hazel in 1954 inflicted heavy damage on the country, and he was abandoned by his junta two years later. Exiled...