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A man of peace whose ideas defeat dictators

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thescotsman.scotsman.com Halfway around the world from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an American intellectual shuffles about his cluttered house in a working-class part of Boston. His name is Gene Sharp. Stoop-shouldered and white-haired at 83, he grows orchids, has yet to master the internet and hardly seems like a dangerous man. Yet …