Word: ouster
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...desperation, they've been talking through different scenarios for an ouster and how Brown's departure could be explained to the electorate. On a rare sunny day this month, just before parliament rose for its long summer recess, MPs and party activists occupied every table at the riverside terrace bar of the House of Commons. The breeze was gentle, but their conversation was brutal. "Prime Ministers have been known to suffer health problems," mused one plotter...
...Government continued to associate with a man who was suspected of such blatant corruption. U.S. intelligence officials provided an answer last week. They said Noriega supplied Washington with valuable Cuban intelligence reports, even as he was selling U.S. secrets to Cuba. They also warned that his ouster might disrupt U.S. military and intelligence operations based in Panama. Some Congressmen were unimpressed. Said Representative Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control: ''We cannot allow diplomatic concerns to override our efforts to control drug trafficking and abuse...
...cycling's flagship competition adds weight to the lingering question of whether doping poses a fatal threat to this most grueling of endurance sports. French television interviewed fans in the hills above the southern French town of Lavelanet after news of Riccò's drug ouster broke. "You have to expect it by now," said one father, holding his young son in his arms. "It's sad." After Rasmussen was sent home by his Rabobank team last year for refusing to answer questions about his training regimen, daily paper France Soir declared the "death of the Tour de France...
...last July, Bush already appeared to be a spent force, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power. Brown, by contrast, was buoyed by an early wave of public support after taking over from Tony Blair. Now Brown faces plunging poll ratings and speculation in Westminster about ouster plots. Bush is asserting himself with renewed vigor at home and abroad, but intense interest in the race for the White House provides a daily reminder that his time at the top is nearly over. There's nothing like the prospect of leaving office to make similarly fated politicians focus...
...this from the recent ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers. Summers showed a certain, perhaps laudable, creativity in making enemies among the faculty (for after all he wanted to reform things), but those he offended the most were the feminists (male as well as female). They detected his opposition, then revealed it, crushed it, and installed one of their own, University President Drew G. Faust, to replace him as President. Here was a display of dominance rarely seen at Harvard, which usually prefers to veil its changes of regime. How it happened is not yet clear, but that...