Word: machiavellian
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...past 25 years. His caricature of the Sandinista leader seldom changes: sullen, paunchy and balding, with a gleam of evil mischief in his eye. Ortega's wife, Rosario Murillo - who wears eccentric clothing, dangly jewelry, and talks about peace and love but has a reputation for being vindictive and Machiavellian - practically draws herself. "I draw her as a female version of Ortega, with less weight and lots more hair," said Guillen, who in his cartoons has dubbed her "La Chamuca," or devil woman - a moniker that's become a household nickname for the first lady...
...himself in a new book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.” In it, McClellan labels some of his public statements as propaganda and attributes Bush’s fall from grace to a Machiavellian lack of candor among top advisors like Karl Rove...
Political insiders have complex diagrams and Machiavellian analyses to explain why the Italian ruling class is so ineffective. Anthropologists lecture about the national tendency toward fatalism; sociologists talk of a fractured polity riven by regional differences. Others point out the anomaly that the Roman Catholic Church's headquarters loom large in the nation's political capital...
...This portrait of the party's Machiavellian backroom politics runs sharply counter to China's government-sanctioned mythology, and Gao's book has already been controversial in his homeland. Chinese officials pressured him not to publish, he says, and even made veiled threats toward his family still living in China. The Chinese version, published in 2003, was banned - although it became a black-market best seller. Gao is unsurprised by the fuss. "After Tiananmen, the government lost power," he says. "Zhou is now the only party leader who the people respect and love. If his reputation is destroyed, there will...
...picture of Florence's most misunderstood thinker and his tumultuous times. King's breezy narrative doesn't spare Machiavelli, depicting him as an intellectual who loved prostitutes as much as philosophy. But it does present the fresh and sympathetic hypothesis that Machiavelli may not, in fact, have been so Machiavellian...