The laboratory head tickles the dragon's tail whenever we have guests as a show of machismo.

In the short term, from a power perspective, the current Zimbabwe elite is holding the cards, says Steven Friedman, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy.

That shy-looking fellow standing against the curtain at your right, with the brown mustache and broad forehead, is the New England sculptor whose forcible creations are known everywhere, yet he is almost shrinkingly modest, and he never, it seems, even in thought, has broken the injunction of Let another praise thee, not thine own lips.

These cheap, electrical substitutes for real safety have not only failed to safetify, …