Word: authoritarianism
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...Hegel, history "ended," in this sense, with Napoleon's triumph over the Prussian forces at Jena in 1806. That battle, to Hegel, marked the vindication by arms of the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution. True, Napoleon was eventually defeated and authoritarian monarchy restored. But Fukuyama approvingly cites the argument of a little-known French-Russian philosopher, Alexandre Kojeve, that Hegel was essentially correct. The reason: it was at Jena that the "vanguard" of humanity implemented the French Revolution's goals...
...despondency has grown out of 27 years of one-man misrule. Under the authoritarian leadership of General Ne Win and his military cohorts, the country has been beggared and its people forced into silence. Last week, the first anniversary of explosive antigovernment riots, Burmese were suffering through a renewed campaign of repression. For the ruling junta, which has changed the nation's name to Myanmar to reflect the country's ethnic diversity, the main target is the National League for Democracy, the first organized, broad-based movement dedicated to democratic reform since Ne Win came to power...
...liquidated the city because the Sunni Moslem revolt based there could have spread throughout the country. He didn't see the Sunnis as Syrians but as an alien people. And he was able to exercise his power in such a horrific manner by taking advantage of the tradition of authoritarian rule...
...estimated 10,000 people snaked twice around the block. Some 10,000 applications were handed out in just 90 minutes, and 6,000 more were mailed the next day; several recipients then tried to sell the forms on the street. Singapore is hardly a stranger to the presence of authoritarian government. Even so, Gordon Seow, Singapore's commissioner in Hong Kong, said, "Maybe now Beijing will really see how much it has scared people here...
...interviewed for the book, so Leamer, whose previous work includes biographies of the Reagans and Ingrid Bergman, was forced to assemble a life from the often bitter testimonies of others. One of three children of a utility-company executive, the Iowa-born, Nebraska-bred Carson came from a rigid, authoritarian family. "Once when he was drunk," recounted Truman Capote, a frequent Tonight show guest, "he told me that his mother would throw herself on the floor and scream, 'I bore you from these loins, and you do this to me! All that pain, and this is what...