Now that Libya has successfully completed the first democratic elections in half a century, the nation has to face a task that has proved vexing to countries the world over: governance. After emerging from 42 years of authoritative rule by Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the nation must now figure out how to bring together many different [...]
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