Word: ruling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...microcosm, the upheavals of postcolonial Africa: the diaspora from stable rural societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply to stay alive. He fights what he sees as the tyranny of his parents and the authoritarian rule of the priests at his school. For a while, he idolizes Amin's power and intransigence. But this feeling fades, and the stroll he takes through anarchic Kampala, his adopted urban home, just after the overthrow of Amin in 1979 becomes a harrowing hell. Precious few first novels are as phantasmagoric...
...himself, in 1952, did represent a definite change after Democratic rule stretching back to the first inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. But the election of 1952 was mostly a mandate for Ike, not for the Republican way of life. Besides, before Eisenhower declared himself to be a Republican, the Democrats had hoped he would be their presidential candidate. If Ike had run as a Democrat and (inevitably) won, would that have been interpreted as a verdict for change...
...Friday Montenegro's parliament passed a resolution rejecting Milosevic's constitutional changes. But that sets the scene for a showdown in the fall, when federal elections are due. Participating in the election means Montenegro's acceptance of the principle of rule from Belgrade, and even the idea doing the rounds in NATO circles of Djukanovic himself challenging Milosevic for the Yugoslav presidency is likely to be a non-starter - Belgrade's mooted anti-terrorism law would make the Montenegrin leader liable for arrest if he tried to campaign in Serbia. But rejecting the constitutional changes and pressing on toward independence...
...loved the interview with Dr. Laura. Finally, a no-nonsense, tough-minded person who doesn't let the fear of rejection and ridicule rule her beliefs. She is a tremendously clear thinker who has a great insight into the human soul. The questions in the article were great, they were the typical forms of deceit that we practice, not just homosexuals, but as humans. Dr. Laura's knife is sharp and her scalpel tends to cut right to the core of who we are and how we were created. She doesn't seem to have a lot of time...
...Despite retaining power, the results are a stunning reversal for the party that led the liberation war against white minority rule and has ruled the country, with Mugabe at its head, ever since independence 20 years ago. ZANU campaigned on the basis of its liberation war record, attempting to demonize the opposition by casting them as stooges of the country's 70,000 remaining whites. The centerpiece of Mugabe's campaign has been the mass occupation by squatters of some 870 of the country's 4,000 white-owned farms, which occupy the best 70 percent of Zimbabwe's arable...