Word: freedom
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...Mugabe's Road "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose," goes the Kris Kristofferson lyric. It might have been written about Zimbabwe's freedom from colonialist rule 28 years ago [March 31]. Now, sadly, that freedom amounts to hyperinflation, barren farms, food scarcities and the flight of millions of citizens. It's time for Mugabe to go. Zimbabwe has nothing left to lose. Ron Eddy, Auckland...
...rule but then turned into despots--to go quietly into the night. Zimbabwe's turn, says Tsvangirai, is long overdue. Speaking to TIME by phone from an undisclosed location in Zimbabwe, he said, "We need to shift from focusing on our independence and start focusing on our prosperity and freedom...
...Soccer, agrees that “a lot of people want to be able to play for Harvard and support our College.”But along with the drawbacks of being disowned by the athletic bureaucracy of the NCAA comes a certain degree of freedom. In addition to enforcing various practice and season regulations (JV teams are not allowed to practice outside of their playing season), the NCAA forces all incoming athletes to go through a process known as “the Clearinghouse,” which involves paying to send in high school transcripts and standardized test...
...today we need a new phase of democratic leadership. We do recognize the role the independence fighters played in winning our land from the colonialists - but they have run the country down. We need to shift from focusing on our independence, to start focusing on our prosperity and freedom...
What lies in the future for Zimbabwe? We'll manage to get Mugabe out. Mugabe is being deserted. No one wants to touch Mugabe in the region now. Eventually, we will ease him out. After that, we need to set the country in a new direction, giving people freedom, dignity and opportunity. Zimbabwe has potential. With all our resources, mineral and human, we are well positioned to be a prosperous country...