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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change. Tariq Ali

Change Power Incumbent Unless Those Punishment Crisis Something Greater Makes Times Inflicted Bigger Suffers

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many. Tariq Ali

Politics Party Please Projected Obama Above He New Annoying Himself Narrow Reagan Up Ended Candidate Wanted Many

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government. Tariq Ali

Government Change Joke Every Cricket Long-Standing Replaced Board Pakistan

Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. Tariq Ali

Democracy Enthusiasm Those Policies Opposed Western Office Stops Elected

A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television. Tariq Ali

War World Seen Country Mountains Every Television Crossing Brutal Beyond Blew Waged Southeast Storm Against Asia Asian Poor Then Vietnam Across Sea Europe Swept Started Every Night Night

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War. Tariq Ali

War Cold Cold War Ways Some Reaction Were Intensity

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. Tariq Ali

Become Characters Genealogy Firmly Obsession Like Fictional Should Resisted

In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction. Tariq Ali

President President Kennedy Further Embargo Total Direction Economic Pushed Put Moscow Cuban Trade Predecessor Eisenhower Place Which Earlier Kennedy

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one. Tariq Ali

Cinema Christian Difficult Define Would Would-Be Classify Buddhist Islamic Jewish

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends. Tariq Ali

Religion Selfish Own Further Always Ends Used

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests. Tariq Ali

Change Big Powers Accept Affects Governments Interests Right

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance. Tariq Ali

Religion Oppression Christianity Intolerance Immense System Attacked Mainly Delusions Institutional Powers Ideological Persecution Reasons Enlightenment Two Set

The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character. Theodor Mommsen

Character History Entitled National Side Latin One-Sided Proof Case Strongest Development Perhaps Fresh Antiquity Affords Nations Energies

The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. Theodor Mommsen

Great World Old Three Ocean Mediterranean Considerable Once Penetrating Gulf Various Divisions Islands Continent Branches Expanding Breadth Forms Land Far Separates Sea Old World Connects Largest

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines. Theodor Mommsen

Ancient Boundary Italy North

When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians. Theodor Mommsen

Age Immediate Syria Contact Empire Occupation Came Iran Existence Persian Romans Republic Found Last Consequence

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus. Theodor Mommsen

Power Mouth Seem Leading Been

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences. Theodor Mommsen

Battle Political Military Consequences Point Point Of View Course View Enigma

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted. Theodor Mommsen

Time Obedience Ocean Mouth Corner Says Obeyed Voluntary Emperor His Trusted Romans Little Far Coast

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained. Theodor Mommsen

Old Possible Roman As Far As Republic Conversion Commonwealth Far Even Monarchy

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