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...written two years after “Fatelessness,” “Detective Story” demonstrates an expansion in focus from its predecessor as it denounces the general inhumanity of totalitarian governments. Set in an unidentified, fictional South American state, under a vague but ominously present dictatorship??which itself gets overthrown by an equally blurry political force—the novella revels in its vagueness, making its story a universal one of dehumanization. Framed as the memoir of torturer Antonio Rojas Martens, a member of the secret police now in prison, it tells the story...
...Orwellian world only a stretch of the imagination? The former tutor of North Korea’s ruling family thinks not. “North Korea is not an ordinary dictatorship??it is a religious cult,” Hyun Sik Kim told 200 audience members yesterday in a speech entitled “North Korea Inside Out—How North Koreans Think, What They Want, Why They Submit to Kim Jung Il.” When asked what religion they practice, Kim said North Koreans say they study the teachings of Kim Il Sung, the country?...
...invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration changed its tune. No longer were weapons of mass destruction (WMD) the causus belli. Instead, Iraq had been invaded with “regime change”—the violent overthrow of Saddam’s Ba’athist dictatorship??as the goal. Critics scoffed at the time at ex post facto change of objective, but now, just over two years after President Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq on May 2, 2003, it seems that the man from Crawford might actually be intent...
Early this May, an ambulance carrying five of Farmer’s colleagues in Cange was hijacked at gunpoint by uniformed men, apparently former members of the Duvalier dictatorship??s dismantled army. The men, it later became clear, had killed two security guards at a major power plant and shut down electricity for the island nation’s central region...
...should not be allowed to express their views.” Furthermore, according to her logic, those on the committee and in the community who are undecided about a living wage might as well be called advocates for a living wage. We’re apparently victims of a dictatorship??albeit a benevolent one given our grade inflation—where proponents of the living wage have been so wildly successful that all of Harvard feels the crushing weight of one opinion. Even if we set aside the fact that many students and faculty are, sadly...
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