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MISSING THE TIDE...
...There was moderate success, but to be truthful, it wasn’t the great movement to sweep everything before it, which was disappointing,” says Mank, the SASC president. “I missed the tide, and the next tide wouldn’t take off until I was in Law School at Yale in the mid-eighties...
...Democracy's Tide Ebbs In his discussion of "Global Democratic Recession," Peter Beinart thoughtfully underlined the irrelevance of political freedoms for impoverished individuals throughout the developing world [May 21]. Not only did he highlight the fundamental relationship between economics and politics, but he also encouraged readers to question the export of American democracy. When democratization entails so many civilian deaths and economic dependence, is there any wonder that it is met with resistance and failure? It is time for a shift from the Bush Administration's vague, rhetorical emphasis on freedom to more concrete markers of democracy: human rights, peace...
...sets behind the Hamad al Niell mosque, the first drumbeats sound in the distance, drawing back the crowd in a receding tide to make way for a motley procession of ecstatic worshipers. These are the whirling dervishes of Omdurman, and their gathering every Friday at dusk, to pay homage to their Sufi leader who lies buried here, is the closest thing the Sudanese capital has to a tourist attraction...
Democracy's Tide Ebbs...