Word: cabal
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...Blagojevich, 52, earned a checkered reputation, but over the airwaves his gifts are self-evident. Clad in a burgundy polo shirt, his signature hair standing at attention, he is focused, energized and relentlessly on message, fusing ward-style populism with a preacher's rhythmic cadences as he blasts the cabal of politicians responsible for his ouster. Not since Holden Caulfield has the word phony gotten such a workout...
...might knock Berlusconi out of office, though he has the right to appeal and try to hold on to power. Short of that, how else might all this end? Berlusconi's allies have increasingly alluded to a behind-the-scenes political coup they say is being orchestrated by a cabal of so-called poteri forti (strong powers) of Italian business and cultural élites who are allied with magistrates and foreign governments that are worried that Berlusconi has become a liability for political and economic stability. But even if there were such a surreptitious movement afoot to unseat the Prime...
...book, the crime novel “The Skating Rink,” in turns acknowledges the legend’s humble beginnings and prefigures the heights that he would eventually attain.His career began in earnest in the Mexico City of the early 70s, where he fashioned a small cabal of radical leftist poets called the “infrarealismo,” more memorable for their wild and futile gestures against the popular Latin and South American poets they detested than any of the poetry they actually produced. Among the many enigmas surrounding his life (including penchants for violence...
Will Larijani's public criticism of IRIB influence his successor? Though Zarghami is appointed by Khamenei and certainly loyal to him, analysts both in Iran and the West do not consider him unequivocally in Ahmadinejad's camp. Reformists in Tehran have said in recent years that a small cabal within IRIB works directly in tandem with Ahmadinejad but that the organization's political fidelity extends beyond the President. These distinctions help explain why IRIB agreed to air six debates during the presidential campaign, which was unprecedented in Iranian politics. The debates secured a rare prime-time opportunity for opposition candidates...
...month that the Obama administration’s policies were making Americans less safe, Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary, responded with the following comment: “Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy, so they trotted out the next-most-popular member of the Republican cabal...