Mandela neither demanded nor received an entirely unconditional devotion; in power he expected his compatriots to behave as assertive citizens not genuflecting disciples
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Spencer AckermanSpencer Ackerman is an associate editor of the New Republic, where he writes regularly about intelligence and United States national security. His work has also appeared in the Washington Monthly, Salon, CQ Homeland Security, and other publications. Recent articlesOil and 'gasolina' in Kurdistan In one part of Iraq, the daily struggle for survival is waged against a pulsating Spanish-Jamaican musical beat celebrating the joys of – well, what, exactly? Spencer Ackerman reports from Irbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. |
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