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...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class were patting themselves on the back for spreading democracy into hitherto authoritarian climes, Kaplan was prepared to question democracy's significance in understanding the global dynamic. Indeed, Kaplan sees the anarchy of sub-Saharan Africa as but a preview...
...which he had been freely elected in 1990. They sank almost $100 million into Haiti's police and judiciary. But today Haiti is as lawless as it is destitute. A breakdown in America's alliance with Aristide, who left office in 1996, helped create the kind of power vacuum drug lords love to fill. Now, after easily winning the presidency again last week, can Aristide do much about the problem...
...almost surgically bisected Congress, moderates on both sides believe they will have crucial leverage to pass bills on issues such as health care, trade and possibly even campaign-finance reform. "The center is much stronger," enthuses Senator John Breaux, Democrat of Louisiana. "I love operating in a 50-50 vacuum!" He's excited because it takes 60 votes in his chamber to end debate on a bill; either side will have to woo the 10-plus extra votes from the opposition's moderate ranks. The House isn't quite so close, but the theory still applies: with a lead...
...with the president holed up abroad, his former political fixer on the lam, the civilian politicians unable to agree on a constitutional succession and masses of ordinary Peruvians on the street, the situation may be starting to look an awful lot like a power vacuum to Peru's generals...