Word: dynasticism
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Near the Mexican border of Guatamala, in the Maya city of Dos Pilas and the surrounding Petexbatun region, Arthur Demarest's excavations have put him at the forefront of the revisionists. He divides the history of the region into two periods: before 761 and after. Before that year, he says...
The Braves -- last year's Cinderella, this year's proud prince -- are spending the World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays. Canada's best team shook off its decade-long notoriety as a talented squad with no guts by playing a six-game swan song for the once dynastic Oakland...
TURNER AGREES THAT THE MEDICATION HELPED calm him down. But Pittman's second contribution was to help Turner exorcise his father. To understand why Turner and the father he worshipped had no ordinary filial competition, consider this: when young Turner did something bad, his father Ed beat him with a...
Still, her status and the electoral environment have changed during the past six years. Unfettered critical media have replaced the "crony press." She is no longer the wife of an all-powerful President, and is possibly a criminal to boot -- as she was reminded last week when she appeared in...
No legislature is more entrenched and more dynastic than the one in Washington. Congress has become a ruling elite insulated from accountability to all but the interests who spend lavishly to win its attention. Attempts to level the playing field -- for example, by instituting campaign-finance reform laws that would...