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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."
Nobuyuki Idei, the new president of Sony--whose major films last year featured expensive stars and either flopped or broke even--has declared that his first priority for Hollywood is to liberate it from the tyranny of stars . Why do stars get paid so much money?
He has argued that the cyberindustry's hidden "tyranny of code" can be more pernicious than the clumsy, overreaching state.
, Buckley) argue that Gandhi and JP II overthrew tyranny.
The specter raised by common-law judging, Scalia says, is not the unelected judge determined to impose the values of an elite few upon the masses, but that old Tocquevillian villain, the tyranny of the majority.