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...soon clear that monarchists were decisively outnumbered, and the main issue became the procedure for choosing the Head of State. At present the Governor-General, the representative of the Queen, is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The position is largely ceremonial, but the Governor-General has a constitutional role to play and can, in certain circumstances, draw upon the reserve powers of the Crown...
With his own hat size and voice print instead of Dylan's, Luke could have been a memorable main character-as-messiah, for whom genius, as Esther tells Billy, is its own excuse. As things are, the author cobbles up convincing song lyrics and catches the feel of things at the fringes of a big concert tour...
...Flowing, a novel that dared compare Lenin's cruelty to Hitler's. While he was in office, Gorbachev always called himself a "confirmed Leninist"; it was only years later when he too--the last General Secretary of the Communist Party--admitted, "I can only say that cruelty was the main problem with Lenin...
Exasperated, the government mounted a massive treason trial against its main opponents, Mandela among them. It dragged on for five years, until 1961, ending in the acquittal of all 156 accused. But by that time the country had been convulsed by the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in March 1960, and the government was intent on crushing all opposition. Most liberation movements, including the A.N.C., were banned. Earning a reputation as the Black Pimpernel, Mandela went underground for more than a year and traveled abroad to enlist support for the A.N.C...
Since then, Abdul Koddus has been on the knife-edge of Egyptian politics. Writing in Al Shaab, Cairo's main opposition newspaper, he campaigns for democratic elections and release of political prisoners, not knowing whether government tolerance will give way to another jail term...