Word: socialistic
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...does seem like a bit of a playboy. His peppermint smile, spiked, lemon blonde hair, and preppy wardrobe smack of Abercrombie and Wall Street. However, to evoke that hackneyed adage, appearances can be deceiving. If Stephen Smith is a playboy, he is the playboy of the collegiate socialist movement...
Apart from his stint as Soviet Foreign Minister from 1985 to 1991, Shevardnadze has ruled Georgia for the past 29 years, initially as First Secretary of the Georgian Socialist Republic's Communist Party. Things had been the same for so long that it seemed they would never change. But at the end of October, Rustavi 2 was raided by agents from the Security Ministry - and loyal viewers decided they had had enough. Thousands took to the streets in protest. Shevardnadze, facing a popular crisis, fired his entire cabinet...
...autobiography (Plon; 216 pages), Jean-Christophe Mitterrand argues that his father?s political ambitions determined his own fate. Despite the leftist credentials of his progressive parents - the socialist Mitterrand had married Danielle Gouze, who founded the human-rights group France Libertés - it?s difficult to imagine a familial environment more rigidly bourgeois than the one Jean-Christophe describes. The two Mitterrand boys weren?t encouraged to take part in any significant conversations and rarely dined with their parents, who were "not the sort to embrace or touch," as Jean-Christophe puts it. Communication was so formal that...
...Mitterrand denies the charges, which were dismissed last summer on a technicality, claiming the $1.8 million that ended up in his Swiss bank account came from consulting, not illegal arms trading. And again he says that he is a victim - this time of judges, the French press and former Socialist Party allies looking to settle scores...
...first George W. Bush was wary of Blair, a socialist who had been Bill Clinton's soul mate. But the U.S. President judges people quickly and bluntly, and from their first meeting at Camp David last February, Bush aides confirm, his gut told him he liked Blair. There they had a long conversation about the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, whom Bush dismissed with "once a KGB man, always a KGB man." Blair had invested a lot of time getting to know Putin. He thought he was seriously trying to change Russia and suggested that Bush take a second look--which...