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Rice protected Hill after his gamble, when powerful hawks in the Bush Administration were gunning for him for upending the strategy to further isolate the dictatorship. Rice, after all, would have known when she tapped him for the job that Hill was a pragmatic negotiator, a rep he earned as a key player in the accords that ended the Bosnian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christopher Hill | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...West believes "the only election that can be free and fair in Zimbabwe is one in which President Mugabe is defeated," and there is some truth to that. The world will not re-engage with Zimbabwe as long as Mugabe presides over what is widely viewed as a corrupt dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Mugabe Lose His Election? | 3/29/2008 | See Source »

...ranks. "The Muslim world today is finding itself faced with an urgent task. This task is very similar to the one that has been imposed upon Christians since the Enlightenment," Benedict said in a speech to officials of the Roman Curia. "On the one hand, one must counter a dictatorship of positivist reason that excludes God from the life of the community and from public organizations, thereby depriving man of his specific criteria of judgment. On the other, one must welcome the true conquests of the Enlightenment, human rights and especially the freedom of faith and its practice, and recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Church in Saudi Arabia? | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

Makiya was one of a stream of expatriates returning to Iraq, but unlike many, he said he had little interest in what he called the “unseemly scramble” for political power. He wanted to reconstruct Iraqi identity after years of dictatorship, so he began planning a museum in Baghdad where people could search the records of Saddam’s atrocities for the names of family members and friends. He even secured a site for the museum around the crossed swords of Saddam’s Victory Arch...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘A War Over Memory’: Reconstructing a Nation’s Identity | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...going to cross that line - I just go up to that little edge." He demonstrated some sense of the limits on his power by conceding defeat in the referendum last year when critics had widely expected him to reject it and cross the red line into Castro-style dictatorship. Chavez and Uribe both went up that "little edge" over the weekend, but the hemispheric hope is that both are well aware of the catastrophic folly involved in stepping over that boundary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Drums in Latin America | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

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