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Kerr said that the visiting students are aware of the attention their visit will garner and feel the pressure of serving as representatives of the new Iraq after the overthrow of former dictator Saddam Hussein...

Author: By Victoria Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students From Iraq To Attend Model UN | 2/16/2005 | See Source »

...People, let's all rise up and drive out the dictatorship!" The video ends with a shot of anti-Kim graffiti scrawled over an official portrait of North Korea's Dear Leader. A voice off-camera urges the U.S. and other countries to "help our movement to overthrow Kim Jong Il's authoritarian regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes from Underground | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

Saller notes, for instance, that the provision concerning the “destruction of any state” is “hypocritical language,” given the recent U.S. overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colleges Battle New Grant Wording | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

...addition to challenging Abacha, whom Soyinka calls a “murderer with other nasty habits,” he fought to overthrow Idi Amin, Uganda’s cruel military dictator, and this past May he participated in a rally demanding the resignation of Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, whose re-election is said to have been tainted by vote fraud...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner On Survival | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...President will have fewer military options for curtailing, for example, the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. He will confront a seething Muslim world unsettled by the war in Iraq and the plight of the Palestinians. And he may well see bin Laden--inspired extremists try to overthrow the government in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, procure weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or stage another attack on U.S. soil--or all of the above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As The Election Nears, The Question Remains Who Will Make Us Safer? | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

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