Word: beacons
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...country, he now regards himself as an exile, like an estimated 3 million others out of a population of 13 million; he currently lives in South Africa. Meldrum hopes to return to a truly democratic Zimbabwe one day. "I am absolutely sure that ... Zimbabwe will once again be a beacon for all of Africa," he writes. It is hard to see either Meldrum or democracy returning to Zimbabwe while the country is still ruled by a President so imperious and fearful of his own people that he travels with at least a dozen outriders, their sirens blazing. With a certain...
...officer was sent to Kirkland Street and Beacon Street...
...like a shining beacon of hope, and fitting the requisite criteria of being at least tangentially involved with the NBA Draft, possibly incompetent and alive—tight rules, really—a man stepped up to save us all from our collective funk: Tom Tolbert...
...laid down by European powers. The dream of the neo-imperialists was idealistic; they imagined that after U.S. soldiers had secured Iraq, the infrastructure of the modern state - independent judges, honest civil servants, efficient tax collection - would gradually take shape under a benign American tutelage until, one day, a beacon of democracy in the Middle East was lit. Iraq may yet become such a democracy; hope springs eternal. But if that happy consummation should come to pass, it is likely to have less to do with the ideas of neo-imperialists than with the emergence of an authentic Iraqi nationalism...
...actually very depressed by the level of hatred on behalf of the religious right, and I just couldn’t bring myself to go up to Beacon Hill,” he said. “It’s a very depressing thing to watch other people debate what rights you should have...