Word: cabalism
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Suddenly it seems that everyone is discovering how mean girls can be. But anyone who finds this new or shocking should travel back in time with me to Dryden High School, when a cabal of meanies got yours truly tossed off the cheerleading squad, just because they could. Still, today's mean girls can pick apart your daughter's reputation or hairstyle with lightning speed in instant-message sessions over the Internet or via conference calls...
...game. As long as E.U. policy is perceived as being made by a cabal of unelected Eurocrats and government leaders in closed sessions, voters can be sold the line that the Union is some malign force. The truth is that Brussels is nothing more or less than what the member governments have made it. Optimists suggest that since government figures are among the Convention delegates, scapegoating Brussels will be difficult. Perhaps. But to stymie that temptation once and for all, the Convention will have to figure out how to tether the Union to the hopes rather than the fears...
...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...