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...suffering of the people of Zimbabwe and the collapse of the economy as a result of decades of dictatorship, corruption and mismanagement. However, we are conscious that the people of Zimbabwe will not accept window-dressing and an empty politcal settlement that will not guarantee food, jobs, medicines, freedom and prosperity." But Mugabe appears to have other ideas about what the people of Zimbabwe, and their neighbors, will be prepared to accept...
...race for the Presidency pushes towards that fateful November Tuesday, many of us continue to be concerned about our country’s place in today’s world. “The Freedom Agenda: Why America Should Spread Democracy (Just Not The Way George Bush Did),” journalist James Traub’s pointed study of America’s attempts to promote democracy abroad and the damage those attempts have done to our image, could not have come at a better time.Traub takes the reader through the history of America’s foreign expansion...
Born to parents who were early supporters of Hitler's National Socialist party, Haider never held national office, preferring to work behind the scenes while keeping his post as governor of the mostly rural southern province of Carinthia. In 1999 he led the rightist Freedom Party to 27% of the national vote, a result that triggered outrage in Europe and, ultimately, sanctions from the E.U. In last month's elections, the far right had its best showing since World War II, with support from nearly 50% of Austrians under age 30--an outcome that ensures that Haider's divisive legacy...
Kennedy is a professor of history at Stanford University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression...
...struggled to write the book in the third person and had then rewritten it in just 40 days in the voice of the murderous servant. Back then, Adiga had just resigned from his job as a New Delhi correspondent for TIME, and he was writing with a sense of freedom that he said came from the fact that he had "nothing to lose." He has often been plagued by self-doubt, he told me, but he wrote The White Tiger in a state of calm and happiness, knowing even then that he was creating "something special...