Word: unseat
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...helping the Taliban to power was based in large part on self-interest. Afghanistan descended into chaos once the superpowers lost interest in 1989 - the Soviets withdrew as a prelude amid the collapse of their empire, and the U.S. stayed out of the ongoing battle of the mujahedeen to unseat Moscow's puppet government. By 1992, the Afghan warriors President Reagan had heralded as the "moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers" were each others' throats in a bloody civil war that had killed many thousands of Afghans and showed no signs of ending. Pakistan helped create and train the Taliban...
...this week--this is the kind of "centrist" note she will have to sound in her speeches. Often. On the one hand, since most of Florida's Democratic voters are in liberal South Florida, where Reno lives, the primary is hers to lose. But if her party wants to unseat Republican Governor Jeb Bush in 2002--exacting revenge for last fall's disputed presidential election and dealing a mid-term body blow to Jeb's brother George W. Bush--the candidate needs to woo conservative voters in central and north Florida. If Reno does run, Democratic leaders like Florida Senator...
...Kennedy. Mark bristles when it is suggested he is running on his name, but he hasn't forged much of an individual identity. He's against the death penalty, in favor of education spending--dependably Kennedyesque. The family has in fact been crucial to Mark in his bid to unseat popular Republican Congresswoman Connie Morella next year. Uncle Ted has given two fund raisers on his behalf so far. His campaign has appropriated two time-honored Kennedy themes: money and influence. Mark has outraised his three primary opponents combined, in a race that Democrats know will be expensive if they...
...G.O.P. polls with him that show Davis may have been fatally wounded by his handling of the crisis. While the Governor claims he inherited the state's deregulation mess, even Democrats accuse him of ignoring it until it was too late. A strong challenge by Riordan could not only unseat the Democratic Governor but also create coattails big enough to keep Republican House members in office...
...long way off. Taylor and Gyorffy will have plenty of high-stakes competition to keep themselves occupied before then. Harvard will host a final tune-up meet against Boston College on Sunday before next weekend's Outdoor Heptagonal Championships at Princeton, where the Crimson will be looking to unseat three-time defending champion Brown in the team's biggest meet of the season...