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More change might flow from a landmark trial underway in Istanbul. The case pits the state against a shadowy ultra-right-wing network allegedly led by retired generals. Prosecutors accuse the group of staging bomb attacks and assassinations in a bid to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development Party and create a pretext for military rule. Turkey is no stranger to coups - the military has stepped in to push the government this way or that three times in as many decades. As recently as 2007, a veiled threat prompted early elections...
...limited innings and let all the pitchers pitch in preparation for this coming weekend.”In the bottom of the fourth and with two outs, Macadam singled in junior Stephanie Krysiak, who is also a Crimson sports editor, and advanced to third base on an overthrow. Shaw then doubled in Macadam to give Harvard a 6-0 lead, the final score of the game. Freshman Marika Zumbro pitched a scoreless fifth inning for Harvard, and junior Margaux Black closed out the game with two no-hit innings.The Crimson now prepares for its weekend doubleheaders against Ivy League rivals...
...Crimson committed three errors in the field—including a costly overthrow of first base by freshman Jeff Reynolds to yield an extra run in the fourth—but the game’s most painful moments shone on offense...
...Notting Hill race riots in the 1950s - marchers set off for the bank from four of the capital's underground stations, each group led by a "horseman of the apocalypse." At London Bridge, protesters walked to the blast of a trombone with a medley of motives. "Can we overthrow the government?" bellowed Chris Knight, one of the event's organizers. "Yes we can!" Beside an effigy of Fred Goodwin, the former boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland, who is blamed for its collapse, Knight predicted that "bankers should be hanging from lampposts" later in the day. (See pictures...
Nobody wants a death threat from Osama bin Laden. Still, Thursday's release of an audio message from the al-Qaeda supremo calling for Somalis to overthrow their new President, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, may be taken as a compliment in the world's most failed state. In an 11-minute message focused entirely on Somalia and entitled "Fight on, champions of Somalia," bin Laden claimed Sheik Sharif's appointment, which came after he was elected by Somali lawmakers on Jan. 31, was "induced by the American envoy in Kenya," a reference to the U.S. ambassador in Nairobi, Michael Ranneberger...