Word: cunningness
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The great buy-off may prove to be a temporary fix, given that the government's beneficence is tied to surplus funds engendered by high oil prices. Polls show that 50% of Iranians plan to vote in next week's presidential election, compared with 66% in 2001. Lower turnout matters...
It might as well be "Rafsanjani: The Sequel." With Iranians set to go to the polls beginning next week for the first presidential election since 2001, Rafsanjani is poised--but with a 36% showing in opinion surveys, not guaranteed--to win a third term as President, having served twice from...
One is a cunning and powerful political boss. He’s the Contreras who politicians have to please, the man who controls the money and the clout of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. He’s the man the Los Angeles Times recently compared, however subtly...
On horseback, the warlord had to stand out from the anonymous mass of his footsloggers, archers and pikemen. In full rig, cased like a land crab in the formal armor that was designed to protect him against sword cuts and even the slow-flying lead balls of a matchlock, he...
Developments within China will also shape the future relationship. China is so large, and its problems so complex, that the important question is not whether economic and political crises lie ahead - they certainly do - but how the Chinese government handles them. The signs domestically since the disaster of the Tiananmen...