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...March 3 article, Coetzee told The Age, an Australian newspaper, he has avoided the podium since lecturing at Princeton...
...young, impoverished Shi'ite men would pile into beat-up Kia minibuses in a Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. They would travel the 90-mile highway to the holy city of Kufa to lay their prayer mats inside the mosque, jockeying for a spot as close to the podium as possible. Whenever the white car carrying their leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, came into view, the scene would turn into pandemonium. Bodyguards with Kalashnikov ma-chine guns would struggle to carve out a path so al-Sadr could reach a platform beneath the arches. Once there, his speech was usually...
Friends can be hard to come by when you're fighting for your political life. During a recent session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Ariel Sharon sat impassively as a former supporter harangued him from the podium, addressing the Prime Minister by his nickname, Arik, and attacking his plan to evacuate 7,500 Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip. "Why can't you be the man you once were?" shouted the man, a settler named Nissim Slomiansky. "Be the old Arik?" Slomiansky accused Sharon of selling out longtime comrades in his single-minded quest to redraw Israel's borders...
...He’s a little bummed out, upset about his performance and not winning,” Lee said. “He should be on the podium come next year or year after...
...first ever impeachment of a South Korean President sparked a melee in the country's National Assembly last week. Trying unsuccessfully to prevent a vote on his ouster, SUPPORTERS OF ROH MOO HYUN tussled over access to the podium. Roh is accused of campaign violations. The Prime Minister has assumed Roh's duties while a court decides if he should be removed permanently...