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...comprehensive authority. Gevisser, a South African journalist, began researching his subject in 1999 and has consulted hundreds of Mbeki's friends and acquaintances, studied thousands of documents and interviewed the President himself six times. His book traces Mbeki's life from his birth in 1942 as the son of communist pioneers in the Transkei, through his 28 years in exile in London and Moscow, to his two terms in office. It also illuminates the strange mix of economic liberalism and headstrong ideology that permeates the leadership of postapartheid South Africa...
...comedy. Putin’s party won the election—a run up to the presidential election to succeed Putin in title, but likely not power, next March—in a landslide. United Russia gained a projected 315 seats in the 450-seat Duma. By contrast, the Communist Party, which remains the largest opposition party will hold a paltry 57 seats. The process was even more disturbing than the lopsided results. The state-controlled media, along with the police, courts and other elements of the government machinery, ensured that the final product would fulfill Putin?...
...field entirely in the favor of the ruling party, the outcome was all but predetermined. But the more telling fact may be that Putin's managed election victory has caused so little public discontent outside of small liberal enclaves of the middle class and die-hard supporters of the Communist Party. That lack of an outcry is just further proof that, despite what opposition figures liken to the authoritarian traditions of the communist era, Putin remains the overwhelmingly popular leader in Russia today...
...Putin's success, similarly, is based on reversing the national sense of gloom and doom that accompanied the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. While lionized in the West for his anti-communist stance, Yeltsin is remembered at home for ushering in an era of economic and social catastrophe, rampant kleptocracy and a series of geopolitical humiliations at the hands of the West. Rising oil prices have allowed Putin to oversee a dramatic turnabout in Russia's economic position, fueling an increasingly assertive, and domestically popular, economic and political nationalism. Whether challenging the U.S. and its allies on Kosovo, opting...
Still, even while expounding on the shortcomings of Marx's theories, Benedict goes out of his way to laud the philosopher for his "incisive language and intellect... precision and great analytic skill." Indeed it may be the final nail in the coffin for Communist ideology that the head of the Catholic Church feels safe in giving Marx his props as a great thinker. Swiss-born Cardinal George Cottier, a prominent Vatican theologian, who presented the encyclical to the Rome press corps, smiled as one reporter asked about the kind words. "Yes, I was surprised by the Holy Father's almost...