Word: rasputine
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...poster-ripping, politicking Rasputin portrayed by the Crimson during the last two weeks bears little resemblance to the Rudd Coffey we know and respect...
...rival to the Clinton plan in Congress. With this in mind, Clinton will speak at the DLC's annual conference on Friday. It may be a tough sell: DLC president Al From has privately criticized the Clinton plan and said Ira Magaziner, the White Houses health guru, has a "Rasputin-like hold" on the President and Mrs. Clinton...
...behavior of owners in recent years, a certain historical analogy is fitting. As written by Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes in The Russian Revolution, Alexandra and her Rasputin (the wife of Russia's last czar and her confidant) "could not have worked more effectively for the enemy if they were full-fledged enemy agents." Similarly, if someone had set out to destroy Major League Baseball, they would have instructed owners to take the exact actions that the owners chose to take on their...
...early 1940s, the head of the secret police had consolidated his control over the party's social-affairs department, which had a "liquidation" division: "So notorious was Kang's taste for inflicting pain . . . it earned him a title," the King of Hell. The authors compare him with Iago, Rasputin and Stalin's secret-police chief, Lavrenti Beria. In spite of the book's rather breathless style, the analogies seem...
...Kreimer has been blessed with the feeling. Thanks to a barrage of legal actions against suburban Morristown (pop. 16,500), Kreimer received a $150,000 out-of-court settlement last week. More money may be on its way. Usually sporting long black hair and scruffy beard, Kreimer resembles Rasputin -- and Morristown has discovered that he's just as difficult to dismiss...