Word: machiavellianism
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...sake; his minions used Chicago mobsters as hit men against a rival head of state. He was enmeshed in sordid blackmail intrigues with Hoover; he was implicated in bugging King's bedrooms. Far from a noble peacemaker, he was a hawkish enthusiast for dirty tricks and covert ops, so Machiavellian that -- according to Michael Beschloss's new book, The Crisis Years -- he may even have given his blessing to Khrushchev's building of the Berlin Wall. In retrospect, J.F.K. resembles Marrs' Galahad less than a gang leader like The Godfather's Michael Corleone -- the well- meaning son of a shadowy...
Morale at the firm is so bad that more than 50 top executives have left since 1989. Current and former staff members place much of the blame on Dilenschneider. They describe him as a Machiavellian leader with an oversize ego, a brilliant yet cunning bully who compulsively lied and reneged on promises. Insiders say he was so mistrustful of underlings that he rarely delegated, slept little and was often overextended. "One of his bad habits was not showing up for appointments," complains a leading industry consultant, Edward Gottlieb. "This was an indication of the problems he had keeping the huge...
Perhaps in times of war, a more Machiavellian approach toward alliances can be justified. Perhaps the U.S. cannot afford to be so choosy in picking its friends as it can be during peacetime. But President Bush has lowered America's standards to an unacceptable depth...
...Third World, the idea of the nation-state has not evolved too far from the idea of kingdoms; rulers are still heads of extended tribes or vast families, rather than chief executives of the machinery of government. Politics very often pits clan against clan, all the way from Machiavellian patriarchs to the wives and daughters, whose chief duty is still procreation and the maintenance of the tribe's hearth. When chaos and violence rob a family of vigorous male representation, its senior women then pursue the clan's goals, much as queen regents or princesses of the blood would...
...housewife in Burton's account, but she is far from naive. Her husband appears with little of the sanctity he has assumed since his martyrdom. To many & Filipinos, Burton notes, "Ninoy" Aquino and Marcos were merely two sides of the same coin. Yet, ultimately, Ninoy is a sainted Machiavellian. Scheming and plotting, he returns from self-exile in the U.S., a gambler going for broke. His last courageous bet: that Filipinos are worth dying...