Word: pokes
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...constitutionally obliged to step down at the upcoming presidential and parliamentary election on Dec. 27, and his country is more than ready for the change. In the past few years of economic decline and rampant corruption - and especially in the run-up to the election - Kenyans have begun to poke fun at the old man in ways that used to be unthinkable. "What you are seeing is the reaction of people who are tired," says Godfrey "Gado" Mwampembwa, a popular cartoonist who began lampooning the President in 1992, when Kenya held its first real multiparty election. "Before then you couldn...
...Baghdad made it clear they intended to go anywhere they wanted in the renewed hunt for weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein may possess. After a few minutes' hesitation by startled palace guards, the 23 U.N. and International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were welcomed in-to enter rooms, poke in closets, even inspect a store of marmalade...
...prospects for ground warfare. It's a gamble, of course, because it involves a regime whose power is built primarily on fear graphically demonstrating its ultimate weakness by being forced to open the gates of Saddam's palaces whenever a bunch of scientists in baseball caps demand to poke around. And, of course, there's always the danger that the inspectors will uncover evidence of weapons programs - if that happens, expect the Iraqis to dissemble, proclaiming them leftovers or the work of rogue officers and inviting UNMOVIC to destroy them...
...hostilities start. The U.S., says this official, is opening up lines to "people who can do World War II--style resistance, breaking up the infrastructure of communications and command." In a program that links intelligence, diplomacy, psychological warfare and military action, Saddam is being squeezed. "I see it as poking," says a State Department official. "Let's poke this pressure point and see what happens; let's see what reaction...
...Crimson opened its scoring binge halfway through the first period when winger Rob Fried, following a Ryan Lannon blue-line slap shot, managed to poke home the loose puck in front of Union goaltender Kris Mayotte...