Word: unseat
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...Princeton and Cornell, though, Harvard encounters perhaps the two most dangerous challengers to unseat it as Ivy League champion. The Big Red captured the Gehrig Division crown a year ago, wresting it from the habitual grasp of the Tigers...
...notice that the politicians seem to be back-tracking even on things that they had more or less agreed upon. For instance, this effort to unseat Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Before Samarra, it seemed the parties had come to the general acceptance that he was going to remain Prime Minister in the new government. Now there seems to be a strong effort to dislodge him, and that really angers the Shi'ite bloc...
...DIED. JOHANNES RAU, 75, former German President and premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's industrial heartland; in Berlin. Rau, a Social Democrat, failed in a bid to unseat Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1987 before embarking on his five-year presidential term in 1999. No stranger to controversy, Rau suggested in a farewell speech that negativity among German leaders had driven the country toward "collective depression...
...separatist-leaning Francophones in Quebec were siphoned off in illegal kickbacks to Liberal Party operatives. Opposition parties competed in expressions of high dudgeon. "This is a dark time for democracy in Canada," declared Jack Layton, leader of the left-wing New Democratic Party. The first postscandal attempt to unseat the government, in June 2004, left Martin's Liberals clinging to a shaky minority. Push came to shove in November, when Martin's 17-month-old government was shattered by a no-confidence vote. At the outset, most of Canada's chattering classes shared their PM's view that a grueling...
...tourists as well as television and the Internet?although the country's first traffic light, in the capital Thimpu, was deemed a step too far and the monarch had it removed. But for the first time, the King may not get his way: many Bhutanese seem unwilling to unseat him. "I look at all the problems the so-called democracies are facing and reckon I prefer the monarchy," said one young student at the meeting in Haa. Another told the state newspaper Kuensel that the idea of the King abdicating was "too painful to even conceive...