Word: socialistic
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...Officially, that closes the book on the matter, which arose from a brief relationship that Strauss-Kahn initiated in January with the IMF's then-head of its Africa department, Hungarian economist Piroska Nagy. Now the question is whether the former French Finance Minister and Socialist Party presidential hopeful can move past the considerable distraction the scandal has caused, and turn to the rising chorus of voices calling to make the IMF central to the world's effort to face the surging financial and economic crisis...
...disdain. Proving his reformist talents in a time of crisis as he also demonstrates unimpeachably monogamous behavior will not only be vital for Strauss-Kahn to up the IMF's role in a re-regulated international finance system; it may also be essential to his hopes to win the Socialist candidacy to challenge Sarkozy for the Elysee...
...long run we are all dead," he wrote in 1923. He would make it to 1946, but we're all still here.) When there's an immediate crisis to battle, though, Keynes makes for a reassuring companion. While he is sometimes depicted by U.S. conservatives as a wild-eyed socialist, his actual mission in the 1930s was to save capitalism. Now that capitalism may need saving again, is it any wonder that we turn again to Keynes...
...cosmopolitan." I have news for Beinart. Many of the emigrants from the U.S.S.R. who came to the U.S. in the '70s and '80s support John McCain. A lot of us have undergraduate or graduate degrees. There is a simple reason for our choice: we already lived in a socialist country and left it. The U.S. surely would move in that direction should Obama win. Mikhail Godkin, SAN DIEGO, CALIF...
...Godard seemed to concern himself not only with subverting ideas of genre and dramatic distance, as he did with “Contempt,” but obliterating them altogether. His films are a testament to the mercurial atmosphere of French society, whose working class was emboldened by their socialist and communist sympathies to act against a quasi-fascist military government. In films like “Breathless” and “My Life To Live,” the protagonists are young, bored, and otherwise desensitized by a culture supersaturated with highly stylized images of luxury...