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When the presidential election does roll around, the Democrats may well be able to sit back and watch the Republicans muddle through primaries and campaigns with an uninspiring and bland figurehead. However, there is no reason to believe that the Democrats will not offer the same character to the voters. The ugly truth is that both parties are heading towards the center at breakneck speed...
...sets sail for a new life. Most stagings leave her outside her home merely talking of departure. In director Jonathan Kent's version, a wall topples to reveal Diana Rigg apparently already at sea. Hunched during her period of rage and oppression, she stands proud as a ship's figurehead, clouds streaming past, golden light burnishing her. Then she turns and looks back, toward the scene of her unrepented misdeeds and, surely, toward an audience agape at the beauty and power of this finale...
Aristide, Haiti's popularly-elected president, was deposed in a September 1991 coup d'etat after serving nine months in office. Chomsky said Clinton has perpetuated the Bushadministration's policy of only supportingAristide's reinstatement as a figurehead in agovernment made up of the current military leadersand other wealthy elite...
...fortune in NBC. So what does he bring to the table? According to someone involved in the ostensible deal: "Stature, name, the affiliates ((like him)). He's one of 100 people in the world whom people love to sit down with." In other words, he'd be a celebrity figurehead...
...home of the newlyweds and the nearly-deads," Palm Spring became a Spring Break hot spot for rambunctious youths. The prime attraction became not the ball-park but The Strip, a town thoroughfare where scantily clad men and women trampled on Christian morals. Sonny Bono, a powerless figurehead as the town's mayor, began a serious run for a U.S. Senate seat...