The Editor Who Puts Dictators In Their Places

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 27, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

How does one quantify evil into a tidy list?

We ask because Parade magazine published its annual World's Worst Dictators issue last week. (One imagines that it's hotly awaited in the dictator community, sending scoundrels rifling through their Sunday inserts.)

Parade assigned the undertaking to contributing editor David Wallechinsky, author of the "Book of Lists" series and a forthcoming volume about tyrants. He observes the evildoings of evildoers, "like some people follow 'American Idol,' " he says.

When making his selections, Wallechinsky says he considers freedom of expression, the ...

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