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...stressing that everything needs to be done to find a diplomatic solution and a consensus among the major powers. Oliver Hauss Dortmund, Germany time's story on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made plain that the country's 26 million people are subjected to the desires of a tyrant. With all the loans, oil discounts and financing deals that Chávez grants to Venezuela's neighbors by way of increasing his political muscle, he has truly given away the shirt off our backs, although not his own. Poverty, hunger and crime have risen, while housing and hospitals have...
This is not to say that Paglia’s essays don’t contain important and novel insights. She notes the subtle interplay of themes and images between different poems, and seamlessly integrates historical context and contemporary allusion. Her discussion of the fallen tyrant in Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” for instance, touches on the resonance of the poem in post-Napoleonic Europe, as well as noting that “modern readers may find the clarity of conception and execution of ‘Ozymandias’ especially compelling because Shelley?...
...When asked pointedly by an Iraqi journalist on Monday morning if she was interfering in Iraq?s sovereign affairs, Rice said countries like the U.S. who gave lives so Iraq could be ?liberated from a tyrant? have a ?right to expect? the formation of a government, but it is up to Iraqis themselves to chose who will take the seats. ?We should not and will not say who the prime minister of Iraq should be,? said Rice...
...them for the invasion and for 10 years of sanctions that devastated a society and strengthened a tyrant,” he said...
...Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short, rarely have the famous words of Blaise Pascal rung more true: "He who would act the angel becomes the beast." What begins as a noble moral intention to bring down a tyrant becomes a political disaster and a gigantic step backward in the long, necessary war against fascislamism. A field of ruins...