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...wake will come a dangerous vacuum that a number of ambitious politicians and generals may jostle to fill, in a country whose political contests have never exactly been fought by Queensberry rules...
...SHARPTON With Jesse on the ropes, opportunity to be top Rev. Oratory abhors a vacuum...
Albert Einstein showed nearly a century ago that light always travels at one speed--670 million m.p.h.--but his Special Theory of Relativity had an often overlooked qualifier: this blistering pace applies only in a vacuum. When it passes through air, say, or glass or water, light goes a bit slower...
Traditionally, the assassination of an autocratic president brings the fear of a power vacuum. Less so in the Congo, for the simple reason that the capital has long since ceased to be the epicenter of power. And that may be the salient fact determining the future of a country that has known little else but the ravages of colonialism, despotism and war for more than a century...
...avoiding them altogether had begun to exasperate even some of his regional allies. Kabila's army was reportedly incensed by a speech he made over the weekend in which he ordered a final assault to eliminate the Ugandan- and Rwandan-backed rebel forces in the east. But a power vacuum in the capital could also accelerate the dismemberment of the vast country into fiefdoms controlled by neighboring states...