Word: unseats
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Harvard must continue UConn’s slump and emerge victorious in order to keep its national standing high. Games like tonight’s will be all-important in terms of NCAA selection should the Crimson fail to unseat eight-time defending Ivy champion Princeton for the league’s automatic berth...
...party early on Monday, when the Likud Central Committee rejected his pleas to consider the diplomatic consequences and voted almost unanimously to reject Palestinian statehood in the West Bank. Although the vote simply restated longstanding Likud policy, it was a calculated bid by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unseat Sharon. Netanyahu's calculation: The vote will make Sharon's job more difficult because he has to deal with the political and diplomatic reality that Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza is endorsed not only by the United States and the entire international community (the exceptions being those...
However, another challenger is emerging in the international oil market and it may unseat the Saudis—and change the entire calculus of American interests in the Middle East. Russia and the former Soviet republics have large oil reserves that are only now being developed by major oil companies. The Soviet Union extracted 12.5 MBD at its height. Since then, the oil fields of Russia and the USSR’s successor states have been hampered by corruption and mismanagement. However, as oil industry analysts Edward L. Morse and James Richard argue in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs...
...right flank to take more decisive military action against the Palestinian Authority. Whether through escalation or a truce, Sharon needs desperately to calm the situation. So does the Bush administration, which has belatedly discovered the extent to which Israeli-Palestinian violence prevents Arab allies from supporting a war to unseat Saddam Hussein. Arafat will have seen, over the past two weeks, how the wider U.S. agenda created pressure on Israel to curb its own military operations, leaving Sharon exposed politically - and bringing down Sharon's government is as much part of Arafat's agenda as destroying Arafat is an obsession...
...chemical, biological or nuclear capability fell into the wrong hands and we did not act,” Blair said, then “we might find out too late the potential for destruction.” He pledged his full support for a possible U.S. effort to unseat Saddam Hussein’s bloody dictatorship...