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Radek, the tyrannical leader of Kazakhstan.
James K. Galbraith, a constant critic of the profession (and a frequent contributor to the American Prospect ), urges economists to emulate "vibrant humanities faculties" in which "departments develop viciously opinionated, inbred, sometimes bitter and tyrannical but definitely exciting intellectual climates."
The tyrannical president pretends to get beat up by popular wrestlers chafing under his authority, and WWF fans go wild.
He also introduced an inspired system of “ostracism” under which any public servant who was voted inept, tyrannical, or corrupt by the citizenry was banished from Athens for ten years, though he was allowed to keep his property.
On the whole, the national press has a sneering stereotypical view of the state, which you'd think was overrun with oil-slicked bumpkins, tyrannical high-school football coaches, mechanical-bull-riding smoothies, and the odd computer geek, but no one sneers with more relish than the Times . Maybe it dates back to the trouble Molly Ivins had as the paper's Denver bureau chief.