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...Forza Italia (Go Italy!), the party he had conjured from thin air barely three months ago, had emerged as the most important force in the country. In concert with the Northern League and the neo-Fascist National Alliance, the so-called Freedom Alliance had elbowed aside 45 years of corrupt postwar government. Armed with an absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament and close to a majority in the Senate, Berlusconi seemed certain to become the nation's next Prime Minister...
...befoul) England's green and pleasant land, and the Industrial Revolution has brought new wealth to towns like Eliot's fictional Middlemarch. The passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, which enlarged the franchise, has created fear of revolution among reactionaries while holding out the promise of democratizing a corrupt and elitist Parliament...
...from caustic rock to hushed ballads, at times recapturing the brilliance of Costello's best days. "The twitching impulse is to speak your mind," he sneers on All the Rage. "I'll lend you my microscope, and maybe you'll find it." And on 20% Amnesia he lambastes the corrupt calculus of politics, concluding, "You don't have to listen to me/ That's the triumph of free will/ When there are promises to break and dreams to kill...
...only their political consequences," says Rivkin. In his book, though, Brown sifts the ancient documents, Jewish and pagan as well as Christian, to argue that the Sanhedrin was the single recognized Jewish panel that treated both religious and political matters, albeit under the Roman thumb and therefore seen as corrupt by Jews in later years...
Offense comes easily to the self-righteous. And this is an Administration bursting with self-righteousness. The conceit of Clinton's politics is that he and his wife have come with the virtue -- "idealism," it was called then -- of the '60s to redeem us from the "corrupt do-nothing values of the 1980s...