But no one is as passionate about baking as Nadir Gullu, the self-proclaimed "dessert despot".
Some speak nostalgically of the days of Siad Barre, the despot toppled in 1991.
Many leaders on the continent are hardly paragons of democracy themselves, and so would never condemn a fellow despot.
Like many another despot, Mr Milosevic probably prefers to preside over a heap of rubble than not to preside at all.
So also in matters of royal style: Alexander mixed his purple with plain white cloth, avoiding the temptation to go whole-hog despot.
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In the first episode, at least, he's a fairly benign despot, insisting only that they buy his personal choice in bed linen.
The scenes are a box office delight and do a lot to humanize a guy whom many see as some all-powerful business despot.
With the sunken eyes of a Munch painting and the floppy limbs that characterise the Marx brothers, Mr Rush's Berenger is a despot in decline.
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, also a secure-looking despot, fled Tunis for the relative safety of Saudi Arabia on January 14, 29 days after the act of self-immolation.
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Gore and Daschle, the Massachusetts legislator wants it both ways, averring that Saddam is a menace, but declaring himself unpersuaded that the Iraqi despot is an imminent one.
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Real danger attends the possible perception in Baghdad (and elsewhere) that the new U.S. president will prove more tractable, or at least too distracted, to deal effectively with the Iraqi despot.
News that Hosni Mubarak, ousted last year after 30 years as despot, was near to death after a stroke in prison may be irrelevant to the outcome of the current power struggle.
Tariq Aziz, the erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, is said to have told his American captors that the Iraqi despot's friends promised him they would delay and, if necessary, veto any American-initiated UN punitive action.
They favored, instead, "containing" Saddam Hussein or, at best, replacing him via a coup with some other despot who would not have Saddam's criminal baggage but would fit in and play well with the Mideast's other authoritarians.
Under the headline "Risks of Abandoning Deterrence, " Mr. Gaffney argues that Saddam's current machinations (2) adds urgency to ensuring the U.S. retains the most effective possible means of deterring the Iraqi despot's potential use of weapons of mass destruction.
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