Word: powers
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After Guei came to power in a coup last winter, he established a transition government that included rival parties and promised a quick return to democracy. After a constitutional referendum that the nation, including opposition parties, widely supported earlier this year, Guei followed insidiously in the steps of Bedie by seeking to eliminate Ouattara and several other opposition candidates from the presidential elections...
Politics has ignited the ethnic tension that had been largely contained during the first 30 years of independence. Whether Cote d'Ivoire can heal from the emergence of ethnic clashes is questionable. The path to political power appears to pass through a forest of ethnic rivalry rather than cohesion, and the political parties remain divided along ethnic lines. Houphouet's success in leading Cote d'Ivoire lay in his understanding of the ethnic diversity of the country. His successors have instead played up ethnic tensions in their bids to retain power, and the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of Ivorians...
...Fighters' somewhat whimsical setup of two drum kits, five white boxes suspended in the air for reflecting lights and lasers and bouquets of flowers scattered about the stage. The somewhat tepid crowd immediately warmed up when the Foo Fighters burst onstage with "Stacked Actors," a guitar-heavy power ballad bemoaning the superficiality of Los Angeles...
...redeeming feature of the Saints is their league best power play, which averages around 44 percent. However, the success this unit will have is questionable, given the near-perfection of the Crimson penalty kill unit...
...percent power play, and they went 0-for-6 last week," Kolarik said. "Not that we want to take penalties, but we have confidence in who we put out on the unit...