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...Stare Gaze...
...stern face of president Daniel arap Moi has stared out at Kenyans for more than 24 years. Framed on office and shop walls, pictured on every banknote and coin and ubiquitous on the nightly news, the steely gaze hints at his rule: paternal, omnipotent and tough. Don't question the chief, the stare seems to say, because I'm everywhere. But Moi, 78, is constitutionally obliged to step down at the upcoming presidential and parliamentary election on Dec. 27, and his country is more than ready for the change. In the past few years of economic decline and rampant corruption...
...might be you. That is a lesson the British royal family has never learned. For more than a quarter of a century, the royals have been complicit in a bizarre, co-dependent relationship with British media and pop culture. In return for making themselves more accessible to the public gaze, the royals hoped that their claim to deference would be extended for generations to come. Since 1969, when the BBC was graciously permitted to film the Windsors "at home" - who can ever forget their picnic on a grouse moor? - they have thought they could control the terms on which they...
...century France, includes the instruction to “Use no Reproachfull Language against any one neither Curse nor Revile,” Sarokhan’s list says, “Don’t cuss.” And while Washington reminded himself to “Gaze not on the marks or blemishes of Others and ask not how they came,” Sarokhan’s list directs him to “Always remember your honor and your chivalry...
...ground.” Coughlin, too, has faith in himself. This faith is especially apparent when he explains just how sure he is that he’ll one day be president. Without pausing for more than a few seconds, and certainly without dropping his intently straight-on gaze, he answers, “I’ll just say this: I’ll end up in Washington some...