Word: provinciale
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Estrada, known popularly as Erap, had never been popular among the gentrified élite, those wealthy descendants of Spanish colonialists who comprised the well-heeled Makati and Forbes Park power brokers. They viewed Estrada, who boasted about his middle-class origins and was proud of his capacious appetites, as something...
For centuries China's rulers have struggled with corruption and lawlessness across their empire. Entire dynasties have collapsed after losing control over unruly provincial governors, warlords and self-enriching local officials. Today China's Communist Party is facing the same old nightmare--rampant abuse of power by officials at all...
In his provincial chateau, in a round tower lined with books, Montaigne wrote the "Essais," his candid, quirkish, sometimes embarrassingly intimate portrait of himself. It was hardly an ivory tower: War and plague and fanaticism swirled around it. A thousand times, Montaigne wrote, he went to bed expecting to be...
This year's ballot initiatives serve the unique role of being both provincial and national in scope. Although initiatives only directly affect members of a given state, they often take on national issues that Washington legislators have avoided.
Ecotours are often about native culture as well as animals. At Knight Inlet in western Canada, guests may visit the home village of guide Nick Chowdhury, a member of the Tanakteuk Band. Across the country in a very different landscape, Cree guides lead animal lovers in Polar Bear Provincial Park...