Word: autocrats
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...Bush Administration, coached by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, embraced the notion that the reason there was no peace between Israel and the Palestinians was the nefarious maneuvering of Arafat. The Palestinian leader - elected in a race that could hardly be described as competitive - was an incorrigible autocrat, who had accumulated massive amounts of political and financial power in his own hands, bypassing the elected legislature and democratic institutions. He was running the Palestinian Authority as his personal fiefdom, the argument went, stoking militancy and blocking the emergence of a moderate consensus through his political control...
...comes as no surprise to learn that Fraser's cinematic heroes are movie maestros Coppola and Visconti, both lovers of lushness. And Dee, who took out Best Actress at the New Zealand Screen Awards in August, carries some of the pathos and weight of The Leopard's ageing autocrat. Otherwise No. 2-which was released in Australia last week-is a crowd pleaser every bit as tangy as the fruit salad Nanna Maria's extended family is likened to. Writes Fraser in the film's notes, "Does it show that I was born in England and grew up there...
Actually, that’s just the goal of Stewie Griffin, a baby on MacFarlane’s hit cartoon “Family Guy” whose head is shaped like a football and whose voice sounds like that of a British-accented autocrat...
...choose candidates quite different from those the U.S. would prefer to see in power, we could be in for a profound change in the region's prospects. But that requires dispensing with the Cold War mentality that puts the outcome above the process, i.e. better a pro-U.S. autocrat than a democratically elected socialist (or, these days, Islamist). Henry Kissinger once justified U.S. support for the Pinochet coup in Chile by saying "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." If a similar...
...series of powerful al-Qaeda bombs blew up seconds after President Pervez Musharraf's limousine crossed a bridge near Pakistan's heavily guarded capital of Islamabad on Dec. 14, 2003. Musharraf, a military autocrat and key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism, narrowly avoided being blown to bits. Sources tell TIME a suspect detained for conspiring to kill Musharraf has escaped from the custody of state security in the port city of Karachi. According to senior state-security sources in Pakistan, the escapee "disappeared" after a "security lapse" around the New Year's holiday, prompting a nationwide manhunt, kept...