Word: unseat
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...Marines have been sent in to secure the American embassy in Port au-Prince as Haiti braces for a bloodbath. A rag-tag rebel militia on Monday overran the country's second city, Cap Haitien, and vowed to press on to the capital in order to unseat President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide, who was restored to power by U.S. military intervention in 1994 following a coup remains the country's elected president, but opposition groups point to electoral fraud in the 2000 parliamentary election to argue that he has no legitimacy nor any intent to submit to the will...
...that was fine by me. I was among friends, all of us were cognizant that, just down-state a bit, the Sox batterymates were reporting to Fort Meyers, and in just a few weeks sportswriters coast-to-coast would be predicting that the scarlet hose were all seat to unseat the accursed Yankees in the AL East. Young Theo had had a helluva rookie Hot Stove season, what with adding Curt and Kevin, and we were...
...search of change. Dean's fate so far suggests he may be asking for too much. In uncertain times it's never natural for voters to change leaders midstream, and to ask them to embrace wholesale revolution may be enough to inspire a movement but not enough to unseat a popular and well-funded incumbent. If Democrats are making that calculation, then John Kerry seems to represent about the amount of revolution they think the country can handle at the moment. --With reporting by James Carney and Karen Tumulty/Washington, Eric Roston with Kerry and Perry Bacon Jr. with Dean...
...related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced his own, related test. An official inquiry into the suicide last year of government weapons expert David Kelly had produced widespread expectations that some blame would attach to the Prime Minister, perhaps enough to unseat him. On the one hand, Blair and his government were comprehensively cleared by the inquiry's report. On the other, the exoneration was so total that it may create problems for Blair by leaving his detractors unmoved. One poll showed that 50% of the British public was unconvinced...
...into the death of government weapons-expert David Kelly, who killed himself last year after being named as a source for a BBC report that Blair's government had "sexed up" the case for war against Iraq. Hutton's verdict confounded widespread expectations that some blame, perhaps enough to unseat him, would attach to the Prime Minister. Instead, Hutton poured virtually all his acid on the BBC - for making "unfounded" charges about the integrity of Blair and his aides and then not correcting them or even properly investigating the government's repeated complaints. "We expect we can get back...