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LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP)--Posing before a bronze Revolutionary Minuteman, Patrick J. Buchanan fired shots Saturday at his establishment critics, saying they're part of "the revolt of the over-privileged...
...What we have here is the revolt of the over-privileged," he said, stressing that his candidacy is for "working men and women...
With this novel, Fuentes demonstrates his well-earned reputation as a great writer and social commentator. More than political affiliation prompted Subcommandante Marcos, the leader of the 1994 Chiapas revolt, to proclaim Fuentes his favorite author. Fuentes' writing captivates and consumes his readers in the destructive societies and the whirlwind of affairs which makes Diana compelling...
Last year's revolt against the Clintons led by Newt Gingrich was all about the dislike, even hatred, that Talents and Lifers feel for Mandarins. Gingrich and some of his key lieutenants are failed Mandarins--recall that as a historian, Gingrich was denied tenure at a third-rank college--ho despise the Mandarin path for its air of self-satisfaction and for having been so blind to the abilities of Gingrich & Co. when young. When Gingrich rails against the corrupt "elite," he's talking about the Mandarins--and hitting a nerve. Mandarin resentment has enabled the Republican Party, whose home...
...situation as it is," he says. "I know the task seems impossible. But I am not afraid, because in my head my vision is very clear." Preval, says a Port-au-Prince political commentator, "will be lucky if he gets three months" to enact that vision before people revolt. Strikes, protests, barricaded roads could easily degenerate into violence and upheaval--a "crisis of ungovernability," as former President Leslie Manigat puts it--and that could trigger another boat exodus...