Word: tribalized
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Museveni is unabashedly no democrat, at least by U.S. standards. When at age 41 he took Kampala, he had long been disillusioned with the divisive, sectarian politics of Uganda. Instead the country needed a system that discouraged tribal rivalry. He made his National Resistance Movement the sole legal political structure...
...uniform," says Museveni. He believes Uganda has not "evolved" to the stage of development where multiparty democracy is possible or successful; it is still a preindustrial society that does not have enough of the well-off, well-educated middle class upon which Western democracy rests, so parties form along tribal, sectarian lines. Those are the divisions that have kept Uganda in a state of chaos for centuries, so multiparty elections "are not our concern," he says; modernization of the economy is. "That is what builds the middle class," says Museveni. "When you have that, the politics will eventually follow." While...
...Netizens flocked to the desert, where Burning Man's neo-tribal vibes were amplified with the technology of the digital revolution. They set up Burning Man Web pages and E-mail lists. They started two Burning Man radio stations, broadcasting live from ground zero in the desert. From a laptop they produced a daily Burning Man paper...
...movie I would work on was a Disney film starring Richard Dreyfus and a six-foot-tall, beautiful blond, who both spent a good portion of the movie in black face and tribal garb. It had a shaky story line, a $30 million budget--modest as major studio productions go--and was filming initially in a warehouse in a deserted industrial area of Los Angeles. One of the priorities of a production assistant such as myself was to keep the set clear of interlopers and silent while filming. This included asking a variety of passers-by to reroute and walk...
...mostly, she asserts, "they let me do what I wanted to do." She has expanded the story a bit and added several engaging new songs, including three by Elton John and Tim Rice, the original composer and lyricist, and several African tribal numbers adapted from music written for the film by Hans Zimmer and Mark Mancina. Getting her complex production into stageworthy shape, however, has not been easy. First, just before rehearsals started in Minneapolis, Taymor had to have emergency gallbladder surgery. Then, she faced a host of technical problems, from malfunctioning props to elaborate scene changes that couldn...