Word: gime
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...text—the pamphlet or the periodical or the easily reproducible book, which allowed people to read on their own time and by themselves, which, as Chartier argues, made pre-revolutionary Frenchmen into more critical thinkers who would no longer tolerate the inadequacies of the ancien régime...
...wades through the fin de rgime, Fox News will have one important asset: its loyal viewer base. But even for them, it will need to shake up its comfortable Bush-era routine, perhaps by cultivating new hosts, perhaps by taking a page from McCain and branding itself as the channel of maverick authenticity, not of establishment dogma. The viewers are Fox's to keep. It just has to figure out what's going to make them mad starting...
...Maoists see themselves as the agents of democracy in Nepal, stifled by the objections of reactionary, status-quo forces, while many in the Congress, let alone in factions aligned still to the ancien régime of the monarchy, doubt the radical guerrillas' commitment to any political scenario where they may not retain complete control. Despite a compromise thrashed out at the end of last year, which set elections for this April, observers expect conflict to be inevitable. "What more must we give the Maoists?" asks R.S. Mahat, Nepal's Finance Minister and a Congress Party member. "Their strategy...
...play follows the sinister, sadomasochistic, and (almost literally) suffocating interactions of two maids, who yearn for freedom from the Ancien Régime, embodied by the tyrannical “Madame” (Laurel Holland ’07). Apart from revolutionary ideas, the Papin sisters—famous 1930s French murderers—inspired Genet, just as they did in the works of Sartre and Lacan...
...reason is the revival of the opposition Tories under their dynamic young leader, David Cameron. Another is a spate of recent government scandals, from undignified sexual shenanigans to more serious issues of misjudgment, recalling the venality and incompetence that dogged the dying days of the ancien Tory rgime in the mid-1990s. But, like his comrade George W. Bush, Blair faces his biggest problem because of Iraq. Voters think he stretched the case for war. And the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, as well as the mounting strain on British forces in Iraq, has drained his support...