Word: scions
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...immigration-hostile, anti-European platform has traditionally attracted the more affluent, genteel brand of reactionary - matching de Villiers' own snobbish aristocratic background. The scion of a posh family whose blueblood ancestors once lorded over parts of his native Vend?e region in western France, the chateau-owning de Villiers initially attracted more pragmatic royalists and upper-class rightists than he did hardened reactionies. Long unwilling to taint himself with the snarling language and mean-spirited policies favored by the National Front, de Villiers has often been belittled as "Le Pen Lite." He's clearly looking to change that - and not just...
...scion of a popular Democratic Arkansas political family, Pryor, 43, made his mark in 2005, supplanting old-timers like Joe Lieberman and Robert Byrd to take a leading role in the centrist "Gang of 14" that defused the crisis over judicial filibusters. He impressed Senate watchers by his ability to keep Democratic leader Harry Reid fully informed and happy at the same time. Watch for Pryor, who voted with President Bush 58% of the time in 2005, to emerge as a key swing vote and voice for Third Way Democrats...
Olmert is a scion of the Israeli right, which long subscribed to the vision of creating "Eretz Ysrael," extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the banks of the Jordan River. Olmert's father served in the Knesset in the 1950s as a member of the Herut Party, a forerunner of the right-wing Likud. Ehud studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was elected to the Knesset in 1973 as the youngest Likud member. Olmert launched crusades against corruption in professional soccer and, later, against organized crime. Israelis credit Olmert's generation with bringing transparency to the clubby...
...unlike his challenger, is a purebred torero: his grandfather, Antonio Ordoñez, was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, and his uncle, father, and brother are all bullfighting legends. It will be an important fight, says Leal, because of their contrasting backgrounds. "Cayetano is the scion of toreros. Mehdi comes from nothing." However far Savalli has come, a glittering future isn't guaranteed. Savalli is still learning. "Mehdi is a populist, someone who uses his style to connect with the audience," says José Miguel Arruego, bullfighting critic for Mundotoro.com and El Mundo newspaper. "Aficionados...
...assumptions, clash with the reality. Overstaying her travel visa she becomes a reverse illegal immigrant, working under the table at a language school. She stays for a time with her ex-pat quasi-boyfriend Harry, who aspires to literary greatness by living in squalor, in spite of being the scion of a wealthy family. Eventually Carla's idealism and Harry cynicism come to philosophical loggerheads as Carla accuses Harry of being a "colonialist" and Harry declares Carla a "tourist...