Word: dictatorship
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...lied morning, evening and night" about the state of the economy to win re-election in April, protests - many of them violent - broke out across the country. Commentators around Europe attributed the eruption to the passion of outraged [an error occurred while processing this directive] citizens of a former dictatorship who expected more from their elected leaders. But according to Gyurcsány's supporters, there's a more partisan root to the clashes as the country heads toward nationwide municipal elections on Oct. 1. In the aftermath of the demonstrations, police determined that a small coterie of right-wing...
...pair and fear gripping the citizens of a country that is no longer a country. It's unfortunate that this stark reality of life in Baghdad, and by extension the rest of Iraq, does not register with the Bush Administration. The laws of a democracy, or even a dictatorship, simply do not exist. The watercolors used by the Bush Administration to paint an encouraging picture of Iraq are being washed away by the blood of people ruled by fear, not hope. Joe Macdonald Dartmouth, Canada Ghosh's depiction of Baghdad was a wonderful piece of work. Is it the same...
...principles with the dedication of a prophet. Democracy, justice and freedom are found on every page of his 50 novels. Mahfouz would have been angered by his funeral procession, which prevented his true public from paying its last respects as he had wished. Behind him walked a dictatorship's politicians, while security forces kept at bay tens of thousands of Egypt's poor. They loved him and traveled great distances in the hope of taking a last look at a man who had written of the misery of their lives and who had defended with...
...lyrical as a bedtime story, but also caustic and earthy, the novel grapples with big issues - social inequality, corruption, aids - along with more subtle signs of Africa's insecurity, like envy of the West or the loss of a national language. And it's laugh-out-loud funny. "Dictatorship is tragedy that manifests itself in comedy," says Ngugi, 68. His ability to put that into words is part of what turned him into a literary hero in Africa - and made Moi very nervous. Ngugi first started writing in the '60s, under his original name, James Ngugi, and in English...
...accounts coming out of Iraq, this article has best captured the despair and fear gripping the citizens of a country that is no longer a country. The laws of a democracy, or even a dictatorship, do not exist. The watercolors used to paint an encouraging picture are being washed away by the blood of people ruled by fear, not hope. Joe Macdonald Dartmouth...