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South Africa's Johannesburg Star, commenting in an editorial on President Nelson Mandela's appeal to African leaders this week to rid their continent of tyranny, was just as pessimistic: "A man-made famine in Sudan, the current border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and ongoing difficulties in bringing peace to Rwanda are among outrages that suggest the end of tyranny in Africa is a long way off."
IRA prisoners held by the British have famously used hunger striking, in part to allude to the famine--the most monumental historical example of British tyranny.
One wall is devoted to Bad Government, a gloomy portrait of Tyranny, badly damaged, and the other two to Siena’s own enlightened Good Government, full of fascinating detail of town life — roof-builders, shoe shop, school, outdoor tavern, ladies dancing in the street — and hunters riding out to the surrounding countryside.
Olympics: triumph of the human spirit or tyranny of the performance principle?
Loved by millions, this hero gave his life trying to protect the ones he loved, after a lifetime devoted to fighting tyranny in all its guises.