Word: ancien
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...appears to be General Musharraf?s solution to the problem of what to do about Nawaz," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "The general had to find a way to keep the well-connected Nawaz from mounting a challenge to his regime." Disposing of the head of the ancien régime has become something of a tradition in Pakistani politics: General Zia-ul-Haq had Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged after taking power in a 1977 coup; Bhutto's daughter, Benazir, didn't have to bother since it was the plane crash that killed General Zia that allowed...
Stories that make the times we live in sound like the ancien regime or the final days of Rome ought to be told gradually. Otherwise, people panic. They begin to think they can hear Madame Defarge's knitting needles clicking as head after head tumbles into the basket below the guillotine. So, writing from Manhattan, I'm going to begin by telling you folks in the rest of the country simply that, according to a story in the New York Times by Monique P. Yazigi, apartments in so-called A+ buildings on Fifth Avenue are now selling for what real...
...Queen then sat with commoners at a luncheon of which Blair was host. But at Windsor Castle that evening, she returned to the forms of the ancien regime, giving a ball for foreign royals: seven Kings, 10 Queens, a grand duke, 26 princes and 27 princesses. The castle itself provided an apt symbol of royal rejuvenation. The Queen famously called 1992--a year of separations, divorce and scandal--her annus horribilis. The emotional low point may have come on Nov. 20, her 45th wedding anniversary, when Windsor Castle caught fire. Now, just in time for the 50th anniversary, the restoration...
...changes. They sought to maintain the "integrity" of the Union, to preserve old architecture because it was old. They recalled their student days with such fondness that they sought to petrify it. They did not recognize the need for structural change, and mistakenly placed their priorities with Harvard's ancien regime...
Like good revolutionaries, top Republican lawmakers and thinkers see this crackdown by the ancien ragime at the IRS as a sign of its desperation and imminent collapse. "When you get to the point where you have government snooping in people's drawers and talking to neighbors, you know that something has gone desperately wrong with the system," says Stephen Moore, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute. Representative Bill Archer of Texas, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, observes that the irs stirs more resentment than ever because "it has been given more power, more penalties...