Friday, January 8, 2016

A Show of Power

MOBUTU SESE SEKO, the late dictator of Zaire, used to reshuffle his cabinet every six months or so to show ministers who was boss. (To reinforce the point, he sometimes also slept with their wives.) 
"The EU's rotating presidency: Stop the music,"  The Economist, Jan. 9th-15th, Accessed on January 8, 2016, http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21685454-every-six-months-council-european-union-gets-new-president-recipe

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