Word: megalomaniac
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...Saddam Hussein, whose image has permeated Iraq, the most fitting end should be not only ignominy but also anonymity [COVER STORY, April 21]. Shouldn't we give Saddam the invisibility he deserves? The world should never again have to see a picture of this megalomaniac or hear a word about him. MELISSA A. BLAIR Tucson, Ariz...
While the motives behind this particular plan are quite clear—defectors may be the best way to prevent a megalomaniac from continuing to produce deadly weapons with our proverbial name on them—it does not take much thinking to realize that a forced defection is hardly a defection at all. Expecting those who have not left Hussein of their own accord—whose own shifted sympathies or self-interest play no part in coming here—to give us helpful information is something like writing “spaceship” on an Oldsmobile...
Though he earned his place in history as a ruthless emperor and military genius, Napoleon Bonaparte was also a peerless megalomaniac. In the final years of his forced exile on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, the fallen master predicted that his hated internment by Britain would only enhance his myth. "If it hadn't been for the crucifixion," Napoleon reasoned, "Jesus would not have become a god." It was a truly Napoleonic comparison, but contained a kernel of truth: the Napoleonic legend is enjoying something of a resurrection these days in France...
...clarity to eschew those who seek oil money through appeasement. Despite continued opposition from what New York Times columnist William Safire has aptly dubbed the “Paris-Moscow-Beijing axis of greed,” the United States will soon be forced to topple a lethally-armed megalomaniac and liberate the Iraqi people...
...southern Romania, closed all of its remaining large old-style institutions. "We are only about halfway there," says Silviu Calciu, adviser on strategy to the National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption. "But we are on the right track." Romania's abandoned children are the legacy of the megalomaniac policies of the late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who tried to boost the population to 30 million by banning abortion and contraception. He failed but left Romania with the highest number of maternal deaths per live births in Europe, as back-street abortions surged and thousands of unwanted children ended...