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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."— Often attributed to Plato. Or someone like that... History rarely advances in straight lines. It moves in waves of crisis and renewal, periods of complacency followed by moments of extraordinary civic awakening. Political systems often appear immutable until, quite suddenly, they are not. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the fall of military dictatorships in Latin