Our data set is cross-sectional, so we cannot directly test whether a democracy with a tyrannophobic population is less likely to become a dictatorship.

Takeshi said, 'Oh, fine,' like I'd asked about a new brand of rice-cracker.

THE decision having been reached to send me to Sinkiang, the question arose as to how I was to get there. Urumchi can be reached from three directions ; from Kashmir in India across the Himalaya, Karakoram and Pamir to Kashgar, and thence a further journey of near a thousand miles through Eastern Turkistan to Urumchi ; from China across the Gobi desert to Hami and thence on across the T'ien Shan range to Urumchi ; and via the Trans-Siberian and Turkistan-Siberian railways through Russian Central Asia to the Chinese frontier town of Chuguchak (Ta-ch'eng) and thence by cart or motor truck across the Dzungarian steppe to Urumchi.

The priest lived in the kombento. Some people have coffee tables made of ifil. Today people make clocks of ifil wood.