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...seemed a bravura performance, worthy of praise all around. But over the past month, at a series of querulous meetings, Dartmouth's faculty of arts and sciences has unanimously condemned McLaughlin's reign. A special faculty committee drafted a 16-page critique that bitterly complained, "The administration of the college is insensitive to and not knowledgeable about education concerns and (the faculty's) proper and necessary role in the governance of the college." In lay language: McLaughlin had given his orders and done his works without first conferring with the faculty, a serious oversight at an intimate, old-line school...
Haiti's crisis last week centered on a family that has used terror and corruption for 28 years to grow wealthy by imposing its will on the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. For the first time in Baby Doc's reign, spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country brought misery-ridden Haiti close to open revolt. Rioters controlled many parts of the countryside, and the government was firmly in control of only the capital...
...protests that lured thousands of Haitians into the streets last week to denounce the government probably represent a point of no return for the country. Even if Duvalier's reign has not yet ended and he somehow manages to cling to power for a while, his viselike grip on Haiti has been irrevocably shattered...
...that badly eroded the once lustrous prospects of a country that Explorer Henry Stanley called "the pearl of Africa." Uganda probably reached its nadir under the infamous Idi Amin Dada, who seized power in 1971 from the country's first leader, Apollo Milton Obote. During Amin's eight-year reign of terror, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people were killed, and thousands more were forced into exile. After the dictator expelled the country's Asians, who traditionally controlled Ugandan commerce, the economy collapsed. Production of coffee alone, the country's primary source of foreign income, plummeted 40% during...
...impression not only that Jane must have been on the throne for quite longer than a week and two days, but also that many decrees of substance were put into operation under her personal super vision. The sad, unromantic truth of those nine days is that they constituted a reign in name only, fraught as they were with civil strife and disorder, not to mention differences of opinion among those directly manipulating the young queen. No actions for the poor were taken, no attempt was made to resolve the national inflation, and no move was initiated to improve education. Jane...