He has absolute power, and it will be hard to resist the Dark Side.

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In fact, as Putin has moved to secure absolute power in Russia, he has relied heavily on fellow alumni of the Soviet KGB and other security services.

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In different ways, each of these examples appears to point to the same, welcome conclusion: that the imbalance in corporate power of the late 1990s, when many bosses were allowed to behave like absolute monarchs, has been corrected.

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And he made clear that restoring power is an absolute priority, and he continues to make that clear in the meetings that he has.

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General Musharraf's biggest achievement may be that, after eight months with near-absolute power (and with another 28 to go, under a Supreme Court ruling), he still has democrats, liberals, economic reformers and non-proliferators hoping.

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