Word: leftist
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...head of the party was short-lived--he was all but powerless by 1978 and was formally replaced by the more radical Deng Xiaoping in 1981--it was his administration that brought an end to the violence of China's decade-long Cultural Revolution by arresting the extreme leftist Gang of Four, including Mao's widow...
...heavily on insinuations culled from blogs, TV, newspapers and Obama's own books. Corsi apparently wrote in a mad rush, in the most literal sense: I counted eight factual errors in the first 50 pages. Obama Nation may be most useful for readers convinced Obama is secretly a radical leftist Muslim smoker; they may find the book comforting, like reading a Wikipedia entry summarizing everything they have read before...
...Teachers' unions flocked to Laboureur's aid, and collected over 26,000 signatures in his defense. Another 40,000 people sent letters of support to the teacher's school in Maubeuge, near the Belgian border. Posts on the issue to the website of the leftist daily Libération ran 95% in favor of Laboureur's slap. Then the politicians got involved: French Prime Minister François Fillon said he wished the case had been left in the hand of education officials rather than dragged before the courts. Education Minister Xavier Darcos ordered Laboureur's school to discipline...
Qalibaf's relatively hip appearance and smiling persona seem part of an effort to craft an image that appeals to Iran's youthful electorate. "The majority of our people are tired of extremisms and exaggerations of the rightist and leftist factions," Qalibaf told TIME. "The world is going through constant change. Just because we've had an Islamic revolution doesn't mean we don't learn from the good works of other parts of the world." Indeed, in the 2005 election, he won the support of reformist voters who had become disillusioned with the failure of their own leaders...
...victims of the kidnapping surge see little hope of the government turning things around anytime soon. At the Martí funeral last Sunday, expressions of anger, fear and impotence were the norm. Alfredo Harp, who had been kidnapped by a leftist guerrilla group in the early '90s before being freed after the payment of a ransom said by family sources to be more than $50 million, stood next to the bereaved father, as did a number of other kidnapping victims from the business community. The talk in this community is increasingly focused on taking matters into their hands...