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...Coups. They are the result of the perversion of the colonial system, which encouraged us to keep the personality cult and the spirit of dictatorship. That was the nature of colonial power. The frequency of coups in Africa is the result of the backwardness in civilization that colonization represented. There are indeed many, many dictatorships. But there are exceptions: look at the Ivory Coast and Cameroon, just to name two. I am concerned about the frequency of coups. We are too docile, allowing ourselves to be influenced by the Americans, the Soviets or even the French and the British. What...
...television episode on Nov. 23, 1963, the Doctor has become the hero of the world's oldest continuing science-fiction series. An estimated 100 million viewers in 54 countries from Australia to Zambia have followed his exploits in 602 episodes. In the U.S., the show has developed a cult following on the order of Star Trek...
...first participatory computer tale, Adventure, was created in the mid-1970s by computer researchers in Cambridge and Stanford. It involved a treasure hunt through a labyrinth of caves and dungeons and soon attracted a cult following. Miniature versions that ran on microcomputers were available in the late 1970s...
...daily recipe for coping with the '70s. The reclusive Trudeau scourged Viet Nam, Watergate, the hostage crisis and every political superstar from Henry Kissinger to Jerry Brown to Elizabeth Taylor regularly and acutely enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, as well as a sizable cult following. A year ago, Trudeau gave his strip a sabbatical and set to work bringing the gang from Walden Commune to Broadway. It turns out to have been a big mistake...
John Harvard is something of a cult figure for the Yale band as well. The tradition dictates, according to one member, that when the Bulldogs win in Cambridge, the band marches through the streets into the Yard, and the band major sits on John Harvard's face...