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...Communism, in the sense that Fukuyama and almost everyone else thinks about it, has been around for only 70-odd years. There were plenty of predatory tyrannies before Lenin arrived at the Finland Station, and there will be plenty more even if a Romanov is restored to a Kremlin throne. Genghis Khan and Caligula didn't need a course in dialectical materialism to make their periods of history interesting, and neither do today's bad actors -- or tomorrow...
...exiled Duke of Windsor, who had taken refuge in Spain after the fall of France. He made it clear that he opposed the war, and the Germans tried through intermediaries to recruit him as a mediator in peace talks, even suggesting that he might thus be restored to his throne. Both he and the British government later declared that these discussions were without significance...
...Cool J, he must change his ways or else fall off the throne he has tried to build for himself...
PROFILE: An imperial mayor clings to his throne...
...called him Panama's top narcotraficante, indicted him in Florida and vowed to depose him. But General Manuel Antonio Noriega still runs the country, and even though he will not be standing for election on May 7, he looms as the power behind the throne. Polls show that Noriega's handpicked candidate for President, Carlos Duque, trails opposition candidate Guillermo Endara by more than 2 to 1. Yet U.S. officials and opposition leaders are convinced Duque will steal the election. They charge that evidence of government chicanery already abounds: manipulation of voter rolls to keep opponents from the polls, coercion...