Word: standings
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Obama also needs to stand up to U.S. conservatives who are hijacking the Honduras issue by claiming the coup was nothing of the sort. Republicans have protested Obama's position by blocking his appointments to top diplomatic posts. Because Zelaya had broken the law by trying to end Honduras' presidential term limit, they argue, the Honduran military did the right thing by saving the country from the ousted leader and the growing influence of his ally, Chávez. "By calling this a coup," said Florida Representative Connie Mack, "the Obama Administration now stands with the likes...
...lawbreaker - he was later convicted for embezzlement. But had Chávez's coup succeeded, it would have been universally condemned, and rightly so. Honduras' coup leaders have more in common with Chávez than they care to admit. Obama says he doesn't stand with them. Now he has to work harder to ensure their coup doesn't stand...
...despised, the other adored - appeared in courts over 5,000 miles apart. Charles Taylor, Liberia's former President, is on trial in the Hague for murder, rape, torture and other war crimes allegedly committed during the decade-long conflict in Sierra Leone. Taylor used his first appearance on the stand to dismiss the charges as "disinformation, misinformation, lies, rumors." (Read "'Lies and Rumors': Liberia's Charles Taylor on the Stand...
...BEARDED MAN WAS shouting at Senator Arlen Specter, though the two were only a few feet apart. "You can do whatever the hell you please to do," he sputtered at a forum in Lebanon, Pa. "One day God's going to stand before you, and he's going to judge you and the rest of your damned cronies on the Hill. And then you'll get your just deserts...
Coop: 1. Where tourists go to buy overpriced Harvard sweatshirts and key chains; where you will stand in line for hours at the beginning of each semester to buy overpriced textbooks. 2. Where you will never go once you realize eBay and Amazon are a hell of a lot cheaper. 3. Rhymes with “loop,” not “blow...