Word: machiavellian
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Others claim the movement could be a Machiavellian conspiracy against certain parties. Pollsters consider that a low turnout would favor the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ran Mexico for 71 straight years until 2000 and still has the largest number of card-carrying members. A survey by polling firm Demotecnia predicts that the PRI will carry 36% of the vote on election day, while President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party will drop to 31% and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party will get a meager...
...critics evokes the illogic used during the 2008 presidential election by a cavalcade of left-wing commentators, including Slate’s John Dickerson, The Kansas City Star’s Lewis Diuguid, and author David Shipler. These pundits claimed that nearly every criticism aimed at Obama was a Machiavellian ploy, using subtle wordplay to remind white voters of his blackness—even if this criticism did not reference race...
...Awkspert then goes into great detail about how to ruin their friendship--just so that the guy doesn't have to feel awkward while he's flirting with his new target. Harvard's dating scene is effectively nonexistent, but at least it's not Machiavellian...
...have no such excuse. We can plead neither the immaturity of children, nor the cynicism of adults, nor the incredible self-aggrandizement of Machiavellian world leaders. Not now—not yet. Extracurricular activities in college are never necessary to success in life, but rather a welcome distraction from it. At Harvard, they may be where the next generation of elites practices changing the world—but it is still only practice. And if that elite is so concerned about winning now, shouldn’t we all worry about what it will one day bring...
...when you failed a test, that’s when you weren’t nice to someone.’” “He knows exactly what image he’s portraying: an Anglo Conservative Texan.”If Andrea is blithely Machiavellian about Harvard politics, it’s because she knows what it’s for, she said. The campus political games are just training. Her plan is to go back to her home state and become the kind of politician who can do something about New Mexico?...