Word: dictatorship
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...general's death comes on the heels of a call by the UN for the Haitian interim government to hold elections by February 7, 2006, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the 29-year Duvalier dictatorship. The poll has already been postponed four times, and many in Haiti fear that even the projected new date is too soon to resolve logistical needs that have yet to be addressed by the Provisional Electoral Council, the Organization of American States and the United Nations. But with each passing day unchecked violence in the capital is growing at a rate equal...
...late 1950s, they set up representative institutions broadly modeled on those at Westminster. The assumption was that democratic institutions that worked in one context would automatically work in another. The result has been a failure. Africa has taken a number of detours from the intended democracy, most frequently into dictatorship and kleptocracy. In order to practice democracy successfully, a critical mass of free men and women need to truly grasp its implications and make informed policy choices. In South Africa, it is the lack of political leadership, amid a solid institutional framework, that inhibits the country's decisive response...
...assumption of responsibility. "After John Paul died," a Rome-based Cardinal recalled recently, "Ratzinger seemed to be carrying the entire Church on his shoulders." Hours before the voting was to begin, he gave his last speech as Cardinal, an impassioned defense of orthodoxy in which he denounced "the dictatorship of relativism." The next day, he was Pope. Beaming from the loggia above a drizzly St. Peter's Square, Papa Benedetto XVI told the world that the Cardinals had elected "a humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." He quickly got down to business. Benedict fast-tracked John Paul...
...democracy .......... 57% A dictatorship .......... 26% An Islamic state...
...years? A democracy .......... 64% A dictatorship .......... 18% An Islamic state...