Word: legacyism
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Frustrating as Pol Pot's end may have been to the people of Cambodia, it was also, perhaps, convenient to most of the parties involved. Had Pol Pot been put in the dock, his testimony could have been extremely uncomfortable to most of the region's power players -- the Khmer...
Such would-be kidnappers of King's legacy have chosen a highly selective interpretation of his message. They have filtered out his radicalism and sense of urgency. That most famous speech was studded with demands. "We have come to our nation's capital to cash a check," King admonished. "When...
Beside the fatwa, what is Khomeini's legacy? The revolution, no longer at risk, still revels in having repeatedly, with impunity, defied the American Satan. The Islamic state was proof to the faithful--as the Soviet Union was to generations of communists--that the Western system need not be a...
Without Walesa, the occupation strike in the Lenin Shipyard might never have taken off. Without him, Solidarity might never have been born. Without him, it might not have survived martial law and come back triumphantly to negotiate the transition from communism to democracy. And without the Polish icebreaking, Eastern Europe...
Rwanda is known as the "Land of a Thousand Hills." Since 1994, when the country convulsed in genocidal spasms that killed 1 million people, it has mostly been a land of tears. As the country's Minister of State for Education--and at 34 the youngest member of the Cabinet...