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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.
Some of Brown's opponents have gone negative, calling her "ruthless" and tyrannical.
Among the lowlights: An article contends that the much-touted new African leaders (Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, Rwanda's Paul Kagame, Congo's Laurent Kabila) are as tyrannical as their predecessors.