Word: machiavellis
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...rights activists and a German court for ignoring, if not approving, the murder by Iranian hit squads of regime opponents in Europe; the Iranian government rejected the accusations outright. Rafsanjani's critics view him as opportunistic, corrupt in financial dealings and lacking guiding principles. "Have you ever heard of Machiavelli?" asks Ibrahim Yazdi, head of the Iran Freedom Movement and a former colleague of Rafsanjani's. "His policy is always to be ambiguous. But he is a cleric, and deep down, he is a conservative...
...Machiavelli's advice to political leaders was that it's more important to be feared than to be loved. That's no help for President Bush on his European tour; in spite of the warm words he's exchanging with European leaders, the reality is that the Bush administration is neither loved nor feared in growing sectors of the international community - increasingly, it is simply being ignored...
...active contributer in the field of political philosophy, Mansfield has published multiple texts and provided translations of theorists such as Machiavelli...
...scandal; he allegedly sent his sister a tape of her husband having sex with a prostitute in an effort to gain leverage over his brother-in-law, who was cooperating in an investigation of Kushner's finances. Finally, McGreevey was caught on an FBI tape using the word "Machiavelli." Prosecutors said it was a code word to trigger a bribery scheme, but the Governor said it was merely a literary allusion...
AMERICAN IDOL It takes talent, a bio and a whiff of Machiavelli to win this reality-show crown...