Word: dictatorship
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...name mentioned in conversations with Iraqis, whether politicians or ordinary folks. Even insurgent leaders rarely invoke his name: Rumsfeld is occasionally named in their statements and videos, but never in conversation. (Condi Rice, perhaps because she is a woman, comes up more often.) In a society long used to dictatorship, the notion that an American official other than President Bush can wield considerable power simply doesn't compute...
...places on earth deserve a break more than Nicaragua does. For most of the last century, it was devastated by natural disasters like the massive 1972 Managua earthquake, brutalized by the Somoza family dictatorship and then betrayed by the venal incompetents of the Sandinista Front even as it was scarred by the U.S.-backed ontra war of the 1980s. But as the Western hemisphere's third poorest nation goes to the polls this Sunday to elect a new president, it looks set to prolong if not worsen its misery - thanks, in part, to Washington's failure to give Nicaragua...
...DIED. Thet Win Aung, 34, Burmese activist sentenced to 59 years in jail in 1998 for organizing protests demanding education reform; of unconfirmed causes; in Mandalay. While officials for Burma's military dictatorship said that Thet Win Aung had died of heart failure, human-rights groups alleged that his health had deteriorated as a result of torture and neglect, and demanded an independent investigation into his death...
...order to preserve the Republic’s freedom, the republican principles of plural collegiality and responsibility needed to be abandoned. By most accounts, the system succeeded in saving the Republic from external invaders and internal rebellions alike. According to legend, Cincinnatus was plowing his field when called to dictatorship, an activity that he blissfully resumed after having saved the Republic. In view of our current bureaucratic standstill, I venture that this is the path Harvard should take. Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles shrewdly provided a precedent when he bypassed the snail-paced Core Committee in approving...
...Last King of Scotland” recounts the terror of Idi Amin’s dictatorship. Amin attempts to keep the crown certain by eliminating any threats, but this, paradoxically, only increases his constituents’ desire to change leaders. Shakespeare understood this well, as readers of “Julius Caesar,” “Richard II,” and “Richard III” can attest. “All the King’s Men” shows the rise and fall of a charismatic populist unable to handle the mechanisms...