Word: ruler
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...Jonassaint will honor the Governors Island agreement signed by Aristide and Haiti's military leaders in New York last July -- as the U.S. has long demanded -- save one critical component: it will no longer accept Aristide's resumption of the presidency. The accord also requires the removal of military ruler Cedras. Phillipe claimed that talks have been opened with China in hopes of landing Cedras a face-saving ambassadorship. Zhao Hufei, the counselor at China's U.N. mission, confirmed that discussions were under way, saying, "Anything is possible if we have diplomatic relations with Haiti." Such relations do not exist...
Baseball is a game of inches. Unfortunately, the Harvard baseball team was on the wrong side of the ruler Wednesday afternoon, as it fell to the University of New Hampshire...
Monday: Claimed in an interview with David Frost that Bill Clinton "would like to be the one ruler in the world" and said, "without dictatorship you could not rule my country" ... Tuesday: Warned a Russian reporter, "Every day you slander the country, and then you are surprised that journalists go missing. If you provoke such incidents, they will certainly kill you." Zhirinovsky did not clarify whom he meant by "they" ... Wednesday: Challenged by a Russian newsman to prove that he is uncircumcised, he blushed, saying, "No, no, I can't show, but you can visit my doctors, and they know...
...right to refuse the examination and photographs, and any refusal to comply with this warrant would be admissible at trial and would be an indication of his consciousness of guilt." The Santa Barbara D.A. also wanted several police to be present when Jackson was photographed, and for a ruler to be used to measure any splotches of vitiligo, a pigment disorder, that might be found on his penis. But Jackson's team managed to deflect those medieval demands...
...agreement with Abu Dhabi's ruler, a principal backer of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, has given new life to the global fraud investigation of the rogue bank. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan has agreed to allow B.C.C.I.'s No. 2 man, Swaleh Naqvi, to be extradited to the U.S. for trial on fraud charges, and to give prosecutors access to other former officers and to bank records. In turn, the U.S. has promised the sheik that he will not face criminal or civil charges in the U.S. and that a $1.5 billion lawsuit against him will...