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...Simultaneously, the Khmer Rouge were planning the steps necessary for a radical shift to an agrarian society. During the Khmer Rouge's nascent days, the movement's leader, Pol Pot, had grown to admire the way the tribes on the outskirts of Cambodia's jungles lived, free of Buddhism, money or education, and now he wanted to foist the same philosophy on the entire nation. Pol Pot envisioned a Cambodia absent of any social institutions like banks or religions or any modern technology. He sought to triple agricultural production in a year, absent the manpower or means necessary...
...deadly arrogance. With the cities emptied and the population under Khmer Rouge control, Pol Pot's means of implementation was to begin exterminating anyone who didn't fit this new ideal. He declared that he was turning Cambodia - now renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea - back to "Year Zero," and intellectuals, businessmen, Buddhists and foreigners were all purged. "What is rotten must be removed," read a popular Khmer Rouge slogan at the time, and remove they did, often by execution but sometimes simply by working people to death in the fields...
...fair to Blair, since that's a courtesy his disillusioned compatriots rarely extend to him these days: the British pol believed that a close and supportive relationship with Bush would enable him to exercise greater sway over U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere. But the strategy was flawed. "[Blair] always tended to forget the relative size and power of our two countries," says a former British diplomat, who points to Bush's laconic "Yo, Blair" greeting at the 2006 G-8 summit as a symptom of that imbalance. "I was always convinced that when Blair thought that he'd moved...
...once powerful pol submitted her resignation on Thursday, the same day, as it turned out, that dozens of elected officials from across the county gathered at a previously scheduled event to promote honest government and take a new ethics pledge. McCarty wrote in a memo that she expected to plead guilty next week and admitted that she had engaged in "criminal acts - something for which I should be prosecuted and for which I bear full responsibility." She did not say anything about the alleged role of her husband, who has not commented on being charged with misprision of felony...
...fixture of pop culture. An episode of Seinfeld centered around a box of Cubans, while the stogie's famous champions include Michael Jordan, Rush Limbaugh and Lil' Wayne. Politicians dabble too - Arnold Schwarzenegger is a noted fan - although puffing on a Cuban can leave an eggy residue on a pol's face. A year after Tom DeLay thundered that "American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor," a photo emerged of the former House majority leader sucking on a Hoyo de Monterrey. Washington was also the site...