Summary: Socialists tend to believe in grandiose social engineering plans Students who know too much, citizens who can think for themselves, tend to be a problem...

Prior to the election of Dimitris Christofias in February of this year and Mehmet Ali Talat in 2005, the partitioned island of Cyprus was governed and influenced by isolationism, nationalism and unilateralism; former presidents Rauf Denktash and Tassos Papadopoulos, both long standing presidents of the Republic of Cyprus and North Cyprus respectively, advocated strong political wills to strengthen and cement the partition that had existed in the prime of their political careers and had been handed into their guardianship in their twighlight years...