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...convention in Nashville in August 2002. "Regime change in Iraq would bring about a number of benefits to the region," he said, including "the chance to promote the values that can bring lasting peace." He quoted Ajami's conviction that after liberation, the streets of Baghdad and Basra would "erupt in joy in the same way as the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans." By last summer, to the surprise of many old critics, Cheney's intellectual journey was complete. William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, the Koran of neoconservative thought, was critical when Bush chose Cheney...
Maintaining democracies that are cooperative members of the world community is not always easy. The current situation in Venezuela proves that democratic leaders can quickly morph into tyrants, and abuse their own people. Battles can also erupt between people of various ethnic groups within a nation—a situation that the world witnessed most recently in the Balkans. Fundamentalist Islamic groups also may pose a grave challenge to the stability of a newly forged democracy, just as they now constantly challenge the legitimacy of Pakistan’s regime...
...Harvard and Yale administrations are very similar in their commitment to running a university on business principles,” he said. “Things are liable to erupt in both places...
...kind of wanted to score more goals so people could go crazy and the crowd could erupt,” she said...
...game defined by defense, the Harvard women’s hockey team finally gave a record home crowd of 1,741 a reason to erupt after two scoreless periods when Crimson captain Jennifer Botterill won the game’s final faceoff and fellow captain Angela Ruggiero took the puck behind the net to run out the clock...