In fact, the real coup is the way Jobs has recaptured control of the firm he co-founded twenty-one years ago in his parents' Silicon Valley garage.
The Thai military declared Thursday that it had recaptured control of central Bangkok, but Thailand remained on edge after the worst urban violence in the country's modern history.
A year after 9/11, in the midterm elections, he increased his majority in the House and recaptured control of the Senate by portraying selected Democrats as friends of terrorism.
New Jersey Democrats have been sparring about the next speaker virtually from the moment it became clear on Election Night that they had recaptured control of the Assembly for the first time in a decade.
Mr. Kirk had a victory in the 1986 midterm elections, when the Democrats recaptured control of the Senate after six years, but he also witnessed the harsh defeat of Michael S. Dukakis to President George Bush in 1988.
With a gain of some 60 seats, a swing not registered since 1948, Republicans recaptured control of the House and dramatically reduced the Democrats' majority in the Senate in the 2010 midterm election.
