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Sunday, March 05, 2006

We don't need another Nero

Kibaki declares the famine in North-Eastern Kenya a "national disaster". And then sends out a squadron to raid the offices of the Standard Newspaper, and shut down its presses. Touchingly evocative of Bush at the ranch, dodging Cindy Sheehan while the phone taps hummed across the land, and the levees broke in New Orleans.

What IS it about power that turns people into despots?

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