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Ever the land of intrigue, Haiti is rife with theories about what happened and why. Many believe that Manigat, eager to assert his own authority over the army, simply moved too fast in his attempt to shake up the military's high command. Others assert that the initiative came from army commanders made uneasy by Manigat's campaign to stamp out corruption and contraband, a major source of income for many military men. According to this theory, Namphy was merely a pawn, forced into action by his own men. Others point to a Machiavellian third possibility: that the coup...
Just take a gander at the Democratic field, which is rife with supposed nonpresidents, especially among the current leaders. Michael S. Dukakis began his career as a local attorney, then became a state legislator, then lieutenant governor, then governor, then governor again and soon...well, who knows? Jesse Jackson was a young civil rights leader in the 1960s. He didn't gain his prominence, even as the leading national Black leader, until he entered the presidential race in 1984. And let us not forget that Richard Gephardt is after all a simple congressman representing a portion of St. Louis...
Stories about the Marines' behavior are rife among former Soviet embassy employees, although these workers, who often report to the KGB, have reasons to exaggerate. "They were wild," a Soviet woman translator said of the Marines. "They chased all the skirts, Russian or otherwise. If we were flowers, they were bees." A Soviet secretary who had booked dinners for embassy personnel said that many Moscow restaurants would not accept the Marines "because they got drunk and got into fights with other customers...
...order, Clumly slowly begins to realize the ways in which the society he defends is full of injustice. Through his conversations with The Sunlight Man, it dawns on Clumly that his function as a police officer is merely to preserve the appearance of order in a society rife with crime. As the outlaw magician tells him: "I care about every single case. You care about nothing but the average. I love justice. You love...
...Soviet policymaking has grown rife with "conservative sentiments, inertia, a tendency to brush aside everything that does not fit into conventional patterns, and an unwillingness to come to grips with outstanding socioeconomic problems...