Word: socialist
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...government has tried various non-conventional and socialist-style solutions to the housing dilemma. Earlier this year, Caracas officials began seizing apartments considered "idle" to give shelter to those who had none. They moved 51 firefighters who needed housing into one apartment building in the upper-middle class neighborhood of El Rosal. Some residents of the building said they didn't object to their new neighbors, noting that the local government paid a fair price for the units and that people needed help allaying the financial shock of skyrocketing apartment prices...
Yikes. But then Obama is nothing if not candid about his uncertainties and imperfections. In Dreams from My Father, which was written before he became a politician, he admits to cocaine and marijuana use and also to attending socialist meetings. In The Audacity of Hope, I counted 28 impolitic or self-deprecating admissions. Immediately, on page 3, he admits to political "restlessness," which is another way of saying he's ambitious. He flays himself for enjoying private jets, which eliminate the cramped frustrations of commercial flying but--on the other hand!--isolate him from the problems of average folks...
...innocent until proved guilty, and your magazine, as well as the rest of the media, should cease its use of the derogatory term massacre. Mark S. Zaid Neal A. Puckett Washington The writers are attorneys for Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich. Unbecoming Immodesty time's story on segolene royal, the Socialist Party's candidate for the French presidency, stated that she "shakes up France" [Sept. 18]. As you must know, this country has survived much more dangerous shaking, political or otherwise. And although Royal is quite right in declaring that one should not have to be "sad, ugly and boring...
...striking resemblance to the Battle of Lexington, nobody can agree on who's responsible: the Minutemen or their foes. The shot heard 'round campus (and the greater New York metropolitan area) was clearly fired by the protestors, some of whom were identified as members of a Columbia socialist group and the Chicano Caucus. But things quickly escalated once some college Republicans arrived on stage and fought back. The Spec collects official statements from the relevant groups, but can't seem to find anyone willing to take responsibility. A minute-by-minute reconstruction of events might be in order...
...repressed at the cost of several thousand lives. The proximate cause of the most recent rioting, which left over a two hundred people injured and turned large sections of the capital city into a “battleground,” was the leaking of tapes in which the socialist prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsány, admitted that he and his party lied “morning, noon and night” in order to get reelected in April’s elections...