Word: cabal
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...which opens this week in Europe, is very funny, very entertaining. Stiller, who co-wrote it, directed it and stars in it, manages to appeal to fashion insiders and civilians alike. The reason is not the plot. A mere description of it is enough to put anyone off: a cabal of fashion designers including Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier and, strangely, American Vogue editor Anna Wintour look-alikes, has been brainwashing male models to commit all the major assassinations in the last 100 years and they want Derek Zoolander to take down their next target...
...planned strikes were still months away, the Sept. 11 U.S. attacks prompted Belgian and Dutch police to move immediately, just in case European timetables had been advanced. That, complained France?s top antiterrorist investigator Jean-Louis Brugière, not only halted monitoring to identify other members of the cabal, but also risked provoking the flight of network members in France and Spain. As it turned out, police raids in France interrupted terror suspects in the process of trashing computer equipment and mobile phone chips used to store contact names and numbers...
That's where the Internet broadcasts of terrestrial stations come in. Alaskans can tune in to the online WFMU as easily as New Jerseyans and thereby subject themselves to a cabal of DJs whose interests include Somalian folk, Italian film scores and klezmer. For that matter, a metal fan from Beijing can log on to BBC.com and come across a Manchester drum-'n'-bass turntablist featured on the home page...
...Republican has no brain. I have no quarrel with the second half of that statement (although I wish people would attain political enlightenment at a younger age). The first bit bothers me, though. It’s a perfect example of the false perception that Republicans are a cabal of heartless millionaires who don’t give a damn about anything but their bank accounts...
...will show that it isn’t a large, impersonal, autocratic corporation. Instead, it will prove itself an institution that responds to democratic forces and is able to change with the times. Having responded to the protest, no one will be able to argue rationally that a small cabal controls Harvard. Even more importantly, the University will have handled a very difficult situation with dignity and security...