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Analysts foresee two possible outcomes: brutal tyranny (the optimistic scenario) or bloody civil war.
Captain Bligh," which rhymes in his mind with the ebb and flow of Caribbean tyranny and freedom: "The ribbed body with its cargo/ stalls in its doldrums, the God-captain is cast adrift/ by a mutinous Christian."
Olympics: triumph of the human spirit or tyranny of the performance principle?
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."
He has argued that the cyberindustry's hidden "tyranny of code" can be more pernicious than the clumsy, overreaching state.