Word: vassal
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...hereditary chieftain of Lebanon's Druze Muslim minority, Jumblatt earned the nickname 'the weather vane" for being able to steer his followers through the ever changing winds of Middle East politics. A former princely vassal to the Syrian Assad regime, he switched his loyalties to the Bush administration after the invasion of Iraq, when it briefly seemed like American military power would transform the region. Yet, despite the fact that Hizballah is perhaps the world's most fearsome guerrilla organization, somehow Jumblatt misjudged the ease with which Hizballah could pull Lebanon back into the Syrian and Iranian orbit. "I must...
...stand vigil, people in Minsk were making bets on how resounding a victory Europe's "last dictator," as Lukashenko is widely known, would claim in his third presidential race. Pessimists expected him to win hands down with some 78%, while realists expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to instruct his vassal to restrain his usual bad manners and go with a more reasonable...
...part to the efforts of the government he leads, the economy is on a more solid footing than it has been in years, and the nation is riding a long-overdue wave of optimism. Overseas, Koizumi has led the most serious postwar movement yet to transform Japan from a vassal state of the U.S. into a leading player in global politics, one that might one day have a fully functioning military, a revised constitution that renounces pacifism, and a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. In 2005, he cemented his position as one of the most important leaders...
...dissent but that it cold-bloodedly decided to exterminate whole ethnic groups, is to be willfully ignorant—or perhaps just monstrously callous. Thank God for all those brave Cubans who fought and died to liberate their country from half a century of being America’s vassal state. And thank God for Mario Coyula-Cowley...
That wait came to an end last month when Prime Minister Lionel Jospin officially opened the "Palais de Tokyo, site for contemporary arts." With breathtaking imposture, architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal transformed the monumental 1930s splendor of the Palais de Tokyo building into an exact replica of a derelict warehouse - spending $3.3 million of French taxpayers' money in the process. Exposed electrical cabling runs along the ceiling's chipped I beams. The plaster walls of the main exhibition space are randomly gashed and pockmarked. The café's price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper...