Word: autocrats
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...some of my schoolmates and I, disgusted with the shadow of totalitarianism, organized a student movement on campus. It was the first of its kind since the Communist Party took over power in 1949. Through public forums on campus and brochures, we openly criticized the former Communist autocrat Mao Ze Dong and China’s one-party system and appealed for democratic reforms. We drafted a proposal asking the government to grant freedom of the press that gained more than 600 signatures both on and off campus and was submitted to China’s highest legislative body...
...Overseas, people still think of China as a monolithic state, ruled by a larger-than-life autocrat whose diktats reverberate in the nation's farthest reaches. But even as top party bosses gathered in the seaside resort of Beidaihe earlier this month to decide when Hu would replace President Jiang Zemin, ordinary Chinese were finding the selection of the country's next supreme leader largely irrelevant. After more than two decades of economic reform, China's centralized system has given way to clusters of fiefdoms operating outside Beijing's shrinking sphere of influence. Absolute power, once exemplified by the personality...
...Plenty of other scenarios could emerge. Chung and other rising political stars like Park Geun Hye, daughter of former autocrat Park Chung Hee might engineer a new party to fight the election. If South Korea's Prince Charming does enter the fray, the outsider aura he's enjoying now could burn off. And, as one MDP insider and Chung skeptic puts it: "The Korean public can distinguish between sports and politics." But stretching out in his seat on the plane to Cheju, Chung already sounds like he's on the stump, talking about improving standards of living, tackling what...
...will leave behind a College that bears his indelible imprint, from Adams House to Phillips Brooks House to the University Hall offices that house the deanery. Both in his controversial reforms and in his behind-the-scenes maneuvering, Lewis has left his mark as an administrative genius and autocrat, depending on whom...
...famous case of all, the decision not to pursue prosecution of Tommy's father, the ailing ex-dictator who ruled Indonesia for almost three decades before resigning amid bloody street riots in 1998. Megawati's government has chosen not to prosecute a $570 million corruption case against the former autocrat citing his ill health and suggesting that all former leaders should be treated "humanely...