Word: machiavelli
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...political theorist, known for his work on Machiavelli, said he will also be working on a new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America...
...with all its cellular phones blazing. When Rupert Murdoch wants something--the Times of London, a fourth network, broadcast rights to N.F.L. games, his own 24-hour cable-news operation--he gets it with a panache that is as entertaining, and as chilling, as anything in Citizen Kane. If Machiavelli were alive today, he would be reading Murdoch...
...they had best do it soon. Old candidates have a limited shelf life. How limited? We'll know this summer when bookstores get Gary Hart's The Patriot: An Exhortation to Liberate America from the Barbarians. Free Press editorial director Adam Bellow, his publisher, says it's modeled on Machiavelli's The Prince: "He provides a world view and political advice to anyone running for office in the current media-saturated environment." That environment, plus Donna Rice, was the very thing that undid Hart's candidacy in 1988. How come he didn't write about it then? "Well," says Bellow...
Does every university admissions officer read Machiavelli...
...time for a frank assessment of affirmative action policies. After all, even Machiavelli had standards...