Word: ruler
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Bloody strife as a result of disputed elections is no less likely in Iraq than it was in Algeria. Though Saddam Hussein is certainly a brutal and despotic ruler worthy of intense opprobrium, President Bush needs to ask himself some critical questions about the character and temperament of any future Iraqi government...
...could receive a general amnesty. Washington has canvassed more than 2,000 names so far but won't say how many fall into each group. Occupiers might need to fend off vigilante reprisals against rank-and-file party members that could ravage the civil service that a new ruler would need...
...view God as an amoral ruler of all the Universe, then He clearly operates forces outside human control. There are Angels in the Outfield. They don’t care which team has been praying, but they will guide the winds to send fly balls over the fence...
...Kukly presented a touchy Putin as a crazed shrink, or an offstage presence referred to as Gospod Bog (Lord God) or just G.B., a pun on his past as a KGB officer. Another caricature - "Little Zaches," a vicious dwarf who bewitched a city into regarding him as a wise ruler - particularly infuriated Putin and his camp. The ax fell in mid-2000, when Gusinsky was accused of embezzlement and arrested. He left the country and eventually was forced to sell his assets to Gazprom, the state-run natural-gas monopoly that would later use its security force to stage...
...dissident project now appears to have suffered the same fate as so many other challenges to Fidel Castro’s repressive reign. The shelving of the petition roughly coincided with the debut of Oliver Stone’s fawning documentary of Cuba’s 76-year-old ruler at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. A revolting bit of irony, to be sure, but one that supporters of Cuban freedom have sadly come to expect...