Word: fear
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...against an entrenched authoritarian regime on one hand and a rising, chauvinistic Islamist movement on the other. "This is a battle for democracy," he explains during one in a series of interviews with TIME. "Writing is part of that, so I am inside the battle. Dictatorship has an understandable fear of real culture as opposed to the state's culture. Once people are exposed to real culture, they will ask about their rights." He argues that authoritarianism is at the root of many of Egypt's social ills, including the spread of extremist Islam...
...before Chad's President, Idriss Déby, with help from the French, rallied and pushed back his enemies. The tense standoff comes as the European Union is poised to dispatch 2,500 troops to eastern Chad, where hundreds of thousands of Darfurian refugees and displaced Chadians live in fear. Now Europe's leaders must decide: Will those soldiers be a neutral protection force for civilians, or an army fighting to protect Chad's embattled despot...
...Walls aside, what Israel sorely misses is the capacity to strike fear into its neighbors, deterrence. The Winograd Commission spelled it out in bleak terms in its report on Israel's failures during the 34-day war. "Israel cannot survive," the official statement said, unless it is able to deter its enemies - teach Hamas and Hizballah a lesson they won't forget...
...That story is tautly, bravely acted, especially by Marinca, an ordinary-looking woman who rivets the camera's attention, and Ivanov, whose bulky poise makes him a figure to fear. More important, the tale is so compelling that it seduces viewers as a fairy tale does a child. They simply must know, as the plot knot coils tighter around the characters, What Happens Next. It's not spoiling anything to say that the resolution is right and realistic - and far from the ending Hollywood would devise, if it ever dared to make a movie like 4 Months...
...important U.S. ally in the War on Terror. And the potential for even greater mayhem in Kenya remains high. Both Annan and former U.S. President Bill Clinton have acknowledged their failure to prevent or stop the Rwanda genocide. And while western pundits may dismiss the comparison, for Kenyans, the fear of a second Rwanda is very real. "I can see the beginnings of an ethnic conflict, I really can," says Mwalimu Mati, a local political activist. "Everyday, you've got more deaths, and these are in slums; they say Kibaki supporters were attacked or Odinga supporters were attacked, that...