She was not a feminist, despising the genre as "fashionable rot, " though she once made a feminist remark.

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Next door to Wahhabi, art-despising Saudi Arabia, these erstwhile backwaters have become cosmopolitan centers of global art and architecture almost overnight.

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Ordinary citizens have ended up despising all those who would rule them: Islamist terrorists, feeble political parties that play musical chairs, and the state that claimed to be protecting them but has dashed their hopes, for peace and for better living standards.

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Between these best and worst scenarios for Russia, following the latest Yeltsin-induced dramas, lies a third less-than-uplifting prospect: that of a crony capitalism of the sort that Latin America has fought hard to shed these past 20 years, in which Russia's rough-hewn democracy comes and goes, while clusters of law-despising monied interests (perhaps heaven forbid, especially in Russia backed by men with beetle brows and gold epaulettes) call the shots behind the scenes.

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