For years, we've been hearing about a kind of fantasy swing voter, conjured by political pundits and corporate chieftains, who is socially liberal and economically conservative (as many pundits and chieftains are).
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Despite the scandals, Najib commands the loyalty of UMNO chieftains.
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Corporate chieftains' imperial ambitions may have to be put on hold.
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Do corporate chieftains, rich bankers, and entertainment stars need a break?
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Republican chieftains embraced Hawley's candidacy after their purported first choice, Rep.
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The same went for the corporate chieftains he considers his peers.
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But not every party official believes in shaming corporate chieftains and corporations.
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The chieftains are fighting each other, observes Mikhail Krutikhin of RusEnergy, a consultancy.
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Corporate chieftains also face subtle but pervasive humanistic problems, such as gender issues.
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In such a global economy, corporate chieftains can risk of making a deal.
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In contrast, Hillary Clinton has received contributions from 21.6 of these corporate chieftains.
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Or for chieftains who might have entertained offers to serve on Japanese boards.
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These are Chinese senior bureaucrats, state owned enterprises, and military and private business chieftains.
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Video recording captured and documented complex consent discussions in multiple languages with village chieftains.
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Snubbing the conference means that corporate chieftains have had to make difficult business calculations.
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The Chieftains reached the state title game each season with Turner orchestrating the offense.
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Both the state and national Republican chieftains offered him little in the way of encouragement.
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Traditionally, indigenous cultures excluded women from leadership roles that were played by male tribal chieftains.
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"I'm sure several of the political chieftains are despairing," Ms. Hasselmann said in an interview.
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But after a falling out with NBC chieftains over programming control, he quit in 21995.
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Despite the worldwide upheaval confronting chieftains of multinational companies, Flannery has been dealt a better hand.
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The business chieftains left the West Wing fearing new tariffs that could hurt their bottom lines.
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A go-go stock market delivers dividends to shareholders, but the real beneficiaries are corporate chieftains.
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Military commanders and state security chieftains — the guardians of one-party rule — had grown grossly corrupt.
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In the process, they formed a state-within-a-state ruled by priests and local chieftains.
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As worldwide upheaval confronts chieftains of multinational companies, Mr. Flannery has been dealt a better hand.
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Led by Cara Butler, the Chieftains' star dancer — and the sister of the New York dancer and choreographer Jean Butler — and the Pilatzke brothers, who specialize in Ottawa Valley, this company brings with it champion fiddle players, the vocalist Maeve Mackinnon and touring members of the Chieftains.
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In fairness to the president-elect, corporate chieftains have a long and distinguished history of public service.
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That April, conservative opposition leaders teamed up with military chieftains, including senior DIM officials, and detained him.
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Don't forget: Corporate chieftains are disproportionately Republicans and uncomfortable with solutions that require government action or regulation.
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" These pas de deux between prosecutors and corporate chieftains came to feel "stage-managed, rather than punitive.
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Yet a much-promoted December meeting between the incoming administration and numerous tech chieftains was decidedly upbeat.
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Corporate chieftains from Detroit to Silicon Valley sharply criticized the ban, saying it was inconsistent with their values.
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Famous for his sharply-worded letters to corporate chieftains, Loeb has helped push out bosses at Yahoo and Sotheby's.
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And the economy — and American business — boomed during this period, just as Benton and his fellow chieftains had predicted.
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His gracious but firm air made him equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards.
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Party chieftains in Washington put the Hudson Valley high on their wish list of House seats to turn blue.
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Mr. Loeb has forged a reputation for writing stinging criticisms in so-called poison-pen letters to corporate chieftains.
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Groups as varied as Catholic bishops and local chieftains have expressed concern about where the social tensions could lead.
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Partly out of fear of Trump, few Western corporate chieftains speak loudly in Beijing's favour, further reducing Sino-American trust.
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And it is the corporate American chieftains that have their biggest businesses, let's say most growth, coming out of China.
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It is the first time such a large group of major Korean corporate chieftains has appeared for a parliamentary hearing.
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To outsiders, the patch of land and the rusting monument to several Ranquel chieftains may seem little more than symbols.
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He will also attend a reception of world leaders in his honor and host a dinner for European corporate chieftains.
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He shot one of a well-dressed napping man in a bowler hat surrounded by African chieftains in traditional regalia.
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Fear and uncertainty among his fellow militia chieftains has sent many of them into hiding, changing residence and even phone numbers.
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The relative dearth of high-profile world leaders meant corporate chieftains were left to address the concerns raised by unhappy electorates.
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The invasion of Iraq created an environment where ISIS could flourish, but its chieftains and ideologues are very much our own.
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Tombs for male chieftains only began appearing in the fifth century, she writes in a paper published in the Japan Forum journal.
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Badrakh Naidalaa, leader of the tiny National Labour Party, says the ruling class of "parasite chieftains" needs to be brought under control.
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The victims, as always, are the Syrian people, who are giving their lives as world powers and terrorist chieftains decide their fates.
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Guedes has held a series of meetings with investment banks, corporate chieftains and international investors to coax them onto the Bolsonaro bandwagon.
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Many of the deals that perished were born of the heady ambitions that filled corporate chieftains' heads during the past two years.
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Fair Game The immense pay packages bestowed on corporate chieftains are often said to reflect feats of management that enrich company shareholders.
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First, Mr. Guzmán went to war with one of his former partners, Arturo Beltrán Leyva, and the cartel chieftains demanded the brothers' loyalty.
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Of the corporate chieftains who pared their stakes, the majority — 212 of them — did so while their companies were repurchasing shares in the market.
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If, as investment bankers like to say, the best deals are the ones clients don't make, then corporate chieftains have been on a roll.
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But it is relatively rare to get to question the contemporary chieftains of the trade, men who call the shots even from behind bars.
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In a paragraph that can serve as a keynote, Eugenides writes about how the behavior of our chieftains trickles down and taints daily life.
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Mr. Trump planned to meet separately with leaders of Iraq, Pakistan and the Kurdish regional government, as well as sit down with corporate chieftains.
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An activist investor and outsider for most of his career, Mr. Icahn staked his career on attacking the chieftains of intransigent companies and regulators.
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During his first four weeks in office, President Donald Trump has signed executive orders, met foreign leaders, prodded business chieftains and battled storms of controversy.
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Not long ago, such sabre-rattling would have triggered an uproar from corporate chieftains, worried about reprisals that would shut them out of China's markets.
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While the tradition of female rulers and chieftains was commonplace in ancient Japan, Shillony says history books tend to emphasize the feats of male emperors.
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Lending a hand is her father, Paddy Moloney, of the Chieftains, whose recorded musical contributions (abetted by the singer Alyth McCormack) add bracing Celtic colors.
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That reflects alarm among corporate chieftains at the political price of doing business in and with China, and at how much that cost might rise.
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Replete with Russian spies and comically corrupt chieftains, and in the midst of a civil war, the NRA isn't close to the main problem anymore.
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Because he is technically the challenger, Conor McGregor is the first to arrive in the Octagon, to the sound of the Chieftains and Sinead O'Connor.
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Meanwhile, Chelmsford Chieftains press officer Andy Driver repeatedly ignored messages and calls and failed to set up a promised interview with club owner Derek Bartlett.
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Both feature female warriors just as strong as—if not stronger than—their male counterparts, plus plenty of chieftains and other bosses who are women.
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Mr. Gupta, the former global head of consulting giant McKinsey & Company, became a pariah among many of the corporate chieftains who once craved his counsel.
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Mr. Kalanick's exit from the advisory council underscores the tricky calculus facing many Silicon Valley corporate chieftains who try to work with the new administration.
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The bride and groom, along with the panchs or chieftains of the Kanjarbhats, form a public gathering and are joined by members of the community.
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This person argues that Wall Street is expecting a typical Republican administration, in which lower taxes and slashed regulations give a huge boost to corporate chieftains.
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His gracious but firm air made him one of the few architects who were equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards.
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On Tuesday, Indra Nooyi, the chief executive of PepsiCo, joined a call with other prominent corporate chieftains who — like her — had agreed to advise President Trump.
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But for many South Koreans, fed up with the impunity of its corporate chieftains, his pre-trial arrest will be seen as an early indictment of sorts.
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It is also part of a bigger trend of Chinese companies, often with government encouragement, seeking to take a seat at the table with global corporate chieftains.
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In a reversal from the steady increases in recent years, average compensation for the highest-paid American corporate chieftains fell 303 percent in 2015, according to Equilar.
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This week, he welcomed more than 3,500 international investors, bankers and corporate chieftains at a luxurious conference in Riyadh to entice them to invest in the kingdom.
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When easy money gooses the stock market, as it did in the years after the Lehman bust, corporate chieftains and their extended retinue receive an unearned windfall.
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Mr. Putin, by many accounts, came to enjoy the company of corporate chieftains who, like Russia's domesticated tycoons, learned not to risk their prospects over policy criticism.
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You wonder if the pro league chieftains, Rob Manfred in baseball and the N.F.L. sachem Roger Goodell, have paid attention, and have the stomach to pursue these strands.
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Promises from President Donald Trump and corporate chieftains that the cut would lead to more capital investment and greater economic growth have largely fallen flat, the article argues.
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Mr. Pei, a committed modernist, was one of the few architects equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards, and his landmarks are many.
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Does anyone doubt that if "Wonder Woman" had flopped, Hollywood chieftains would have drawn sweeping and cynical conclusions about the potency of female superheroes, female directors, female everything?
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For Mr. Netanyahu, the presence of so many global chieftains — and the opportunity to meet with them in bilateral talks — was an important boon at an opportune time.
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Cohn's clients after his acquittal included Trump, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and Carmine Galante and "Fat Tony" Salerno, suspected Mafia chieftains.
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Over the years, he used those identities as he befriended and worked for some of the most famous people of the day — presidents, prostitutes, movie stars, and corporate chieftains.
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The second-most-prolific political donors among the top-paid chieftains were Robert J. Hugin, the recently retired chief executive of the drug company Celgene, and his wife, Kathleen.
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Yet across industries, there are surprising signs of confidence, with corporate chieftains and directors signaling their belief that the upswing will continue for months or even years to come.
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But numerous UK sports clubs have Native American branding, such as football team Bristol Apache, basketball side Tees Valley Mohawks, and ice hockey teams Whitley Warriors and Chelmsford Chieftains.
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Seen up close, his fabrics were rich if low-key variations on Kente cloth, the densely figured fabrics worn, as Mr. Boateng pointed out, by Ashanti chieftains and kings.
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It was read — or really, recited — from memory by Aedin Moloney, an Irish actress whose father is Paddy Moloney, the leader of a prominent Irish musical group, the Chieftains.
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In addition to conventional salary and executive compensation, private equity chieftains make their money in three ways: First, private equity firms typically issue dividend-paying shares to their investors.
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At the annual gathering of the global elite in the Swiss resort of Davos, billionaire finance chieftains debate how to make capitalism kinder to the masses to defuse populism.
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The business-centric approach has found a natural constituency among corporate chieftains, who say lower taxes will prompt them to expand and invest, although few have offered specific proposals.
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Evans and Kelly have already secured commitments from corporate chieftains, government leaders, lead production partner and promoter Live Nation and MGM Worldwide Television Group to oversee the global broadcast.
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Originally intended to be a smaller affair, the list of participants ballooned as soon as the various chieftains got wind of the event and wanted their turn in the spotlight.
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PARIS (Reuters Breakingviews) - World leaders, chieftains of giant companies, the wealthiest investors and good people running organisations to save humanity from its excesses attended the World Economic Forum last week.
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He had an epiphany after retiring: Corporate chieftains are "legally obligated to act like sociopaths," charged with acting in their companies' best interests alone — which usually means just making money.
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Ask corporate chieftains, bankers and lawyers what is important for mergers, and they will probably say that the key thing is confidence, in the economy and in the regulatory environment.
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Consumers and corporate chieftains are heading in the opposite direction, with one group still brimming with good thoughts about the future and the other sure that tougher times are coming.
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Female rulers Archeological studies of tombs show that female chieftains were prevalent in western Japan in the fourth century, according to Chizuko T. Allen, a historian at the University of Michigan.
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In the same era, there were a few revolts by Kurdish chieftains, but only as a reaction to the centralization of the state and the new taxes and obligations it entailed.
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Truckers get free condoms and lessons on their usage while former sex workers tour bars to spread the message, and revered chieftains go public about their HIV tests to smash stigma.
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Before Ms. Trump started her shoe and clothing lines in the early 2010s, she did what any well-connected New Yorker would, consulting corporate chieftains, fashion designers and department store executives.
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Here they involve touchy gang chieftains itching for war, equally quarrelsome police officials squabbling over jurisdiction and one especially "ruthless, rapacious, hands-on, determined" banker trafficking in fishy offshore shell companies.
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British imperialists regarded this rugged region along the Afghan border as so untameable that its tribal chieftains were left to impose their own laws, a dispensation that has continued to this day.
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So long as the international sports chieftains hold strong, Russia could feel pressure to reform its laboratories, the better to get its runners and high-jumpers swiftly back on the world stage.
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The first officials in the hot seat are the chieftains of the intelligence services, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, who was personally repudiated by the President in the news conference.
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Recall that Cook was among the 200 corporate chieftains who signed a commitment in August declaring that a corporation&aposs purpose is not simply to maximize profits for the benefit of stockholders.
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It's a complicated story populated not only by Alex Jones and his subterranean compatriots, but also by mainstream media chieftains who could not care less about factual fairness and promoting journalistic responsibility.
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Local chieftains, as the Griffin Warrior may have been, used precious items from Crete to advertise their membership in the Greek-speaking elite of the incipient Mycenaean civilization, the first on mainland Europe.
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Though his total compensation might not shock Americans, it was considerably more than Japanese or French corporate chieftains make, which is offered as one reason he might have wanted to conceal the figures.
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It should also be noted that the "Commonsense Corporate Governance Principles," released this summer by a group that included Warren E. Buffett and Jamie Dimon, among other corporate chieftains, weighed in on the subject.
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With cocktails and expense account lunches disrupted, the New York-based media chieftains generally concentrated on video of destruction and kept a close eye on the status of their vacation homes in the Hamptons.
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But he followed up days later with a reassuring speech to investors and corporate chieftains gathered in Davos, Switzerland, the ground zero for globalization and free trade, a speech written largely by Mr. Cohn.
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The return of the maro 'ura, which would have been worn by chieftains during coronations and ceremonies, comes as part of President Emmanuel's pledge to repatriate objects taken without consent in the colonial period.
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His experience also illustrates how it is difficult for corporate chieftains to strike a balance between staying in the administration's good graces and thinking about their workers, many of whom might be immigrants themselves.
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The former reality star's tirades against a judge sitting in a case targeting Trump University and his expansion of his plan for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration did more than anger Republican Party chieftains.
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The incumbent, President Michel Temer, is among the old-guard leaders who have become widely despised by the electorate amid mounting reports of systemic corruption by the political chieftains who have run Brasília for decades.
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Nearly every track aims for an international hybrid, and the band's extensive guest list includes Rubén Blades, Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains, Sweet Honey in the Rock and the Cameroonian bassist and singer Richard Bona.
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Monzon is the son of Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno, the most reclusive member of the Sinaloa cartel's triumvirate of chieftains, alongside the jailed "El Chapo" Guzman and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who remains at large.
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The reminder from the Vatican arrives at the opening of the World Economic Forum, a high-powered networking event nestled in a luxurious Swiss resort where corporate chieftains come to rub elbows with politicians and academics.
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Most early states were able to operate with these broad identities by being pretty broad-brush themselves; they dealt with intermediaries such as local chieftains, village heads and holy men, or through collective fines or punishment.
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For years, corporate chieftains have spoken wistfully of wanting to bring home the more than $113 trillion in cash American companies have socked away overseas — if it weren't for tax rates of close to 211 percent.
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He snapped a gent in a bowler hat and suit asleep on a bench with African chieftains in full regalia round him, and it turned out to be the home secretary: a famous man suddenly unguarded.
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And in Santa Rosa, which will host a Latin American summit meeting of indigenous peoples this month, the chieftains council moved about five years ago into modest rented headquarters that house a small library and guest rooms.
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We stand in full-throated opposition to any attempt to dismantle these accomplishments in order to line the pockets of Wall Street CEOs and other corporate chieftains and make the rest of us pick up the tab.
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Museums, though, are finding that they have to refine their strategies as the current generation of major collectors gives way to the new era of deep-pocketed collectors like bankers, hedge fund chieftains and high-tech moguls.
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DAVOS, Switzerland — The World Economic Forum has long been a citadel for corporate chieftains and government officials to bask in their collective stature, coming together to chat about what they can do as leaders about the world's troubles.
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Many of the European corporate chieftains arrived at the dinner concerned about Mr. Trump's provocative words about a possible trade war, his harsh treatment of immigrants, his skepticism about climate change, and his apparent disdain for international cooperation.
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Not only do the chieftains of the Pentagon and State Department meet on their own at least once a week for breakfast to share their thinking, when recommending policies they try to present the president with a single option.
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But even if big companies are able to sway the administration on the Ex-Im leadership, and even if a tax overhaul is enacted, it may be some time before corporate chieftains want to sit alongside Mr. Trump again.
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With at $74.11 a barrel and global supply shortages showing no signs of abating, chieftains like President and CEO David Demshur are getting worried that if the world's demand for oil isn't met, prices could skyrocket to dangerous levels.
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Global Citizen, known for its efforts to end extreme poverty, teamed up with CEO advisory firm Teneo to secure top entertainers, lead production partner and promoter Live Nation, corporate chieftains and government leaders to bring the event to life.
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But ex-militants and local chieftains say that since those "town hall" discussions, little has been done - the government has not followed up on issues raised, is stalling on key demands and has not even appointed a full-time negotiating team.
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A series of investigations over the past three years has led to dozens of indictments and sentencing of political and corporate chieftains and revealed a damning culture of kickbacks and other graft at the highest levels of Brazilian government and business.
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But ex-militants and local chieftains say that since those "town hall" discussions, little has been done - the government has not followed up on issues raised, is stalling on key demands and has not even appointed a full-time negotiating team.
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But it will also remove a voice for the business community in D.C. Mr. Ryan has long been a champion for the kind of tax cuts favored by corporate chieftains like the Kochs, who in turn have donated to his efforts.
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He makes the point that the early parliament was less a democratic conference than a meeting of the tribes and chieftains to sort out their differences—like a meeting of the Five Families to divvy up the Bronx and Brooklyn.
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Ever since emerging markets became a major asset class in the early 1990s, a parade of potentates, policy makers and corporate chieftains have flocked to the stylish village of Davos in the Swiss Alps in the hope of becoming the latest global meme.
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New York (CNN Business)Executives of America's large public companies have long played a role in public policy by advising leaders of both parties — but those corporate chieftains themselves are far more likely to be Republicans than Democrats, a new study shows.
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Mr Trump dressed down two dozen corporate chieftains on live television as "dishonest and greedy" and demanded that they promise, on the spot, to close or scrap named manufacturing plants in China within his first term and bring production back to America.
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It is an unusually public role for Mr. Shine, 53, who is little known outside his industry and shies from the more glamorous side of television that other prominent news chieftains, like CNN's Jeffrey Zucker and NBC's Andrew Lack, tend to relish.
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This strange duality played out Thursday as the intelligence and foreign policy chieftains mustered in the White House Briefing Room to promise what FBI Director Christopher Wray said would be "fierce determination and focus" to thwart Russian meddling in the midterm elections.
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Heads of state, corporate chieftains, policymakers and celebrities slip and slide along icy streets to stop in glass-enclosed, tech-heavy spaces set up by countries like India and South Africa and companies like Facebook and Google along the Promenade, the main drag.
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A Gallup poll taken in mid-July found that 42 percent of voters consider themselves independents As an entrepreneur whose fortune makes him the sixth-riches person in America, Bloomberg speaks to small business owners, corporate chieftains and members of the financial community.
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That band, which blended traditional Zulu music with influences as diverse as Celtic folk groups like the Chieftains and American singer-songwriters like Jackson Browne, achieved international renown before it disbanded in 1985 and Mr. Mchunu returned to his farm in Zululand.
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That band, which blended traditional Zulu music with influences as diverse as Celtic folk groups like the Chieftains and American singer-songwriters like Jackson Browne, achieved international renown before it disbanded in 1985 and Mr. Mchunu returned to his farm in Zululand.
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Trade is the key to the economic outlook in Britain and the EU. Many corporate chieftains joined large bank chief executives and the fear-mongering International Monetary Fund to suggest that the EU will deal harshly with Britain if it leaves and stop all trade.
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The agency sees its primary role as pushing forward new technological solutions to military problems, and the Trump administration's technical chieftains have strongly backed injecting artificial intelligence into more of America's weaponry as a means of competing better with Russian and Chinese military forces.
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Donald Tusk, who as president of the European Council is charged with brokering deals among the EU's disputatious chieftains, declared it his "obligation" to act as a "positive motivator" in the run-up to a summit in mid-December that has become the new deadline.
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Corporate chieftains — including Howard Schultz of Starbucks; Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A; and Dan Price, a Seattle entrepreneur who set a minimum salary of $238,43 at his company — often learn the hard way that speaking out on social issues can be fraught with peril.
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Fearful that they might become the target of an angry tweet, corporate chieftains are being told to give Trump news he can brag about instead, such as new factory openings or hiring—whether or not the White House actually had anything to do with it.
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Embryonic attempts by the Chinese government to engage with the opposition and allay such concerns have not gone far, complicated by the latter's discordant, hydra-like nature; it remains unclear who among the opposition's various warring chieftains would take the helm in a transition.
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Instead, not only has Trump packed his Cabinet with bankers and rich corporate chieftains, but he is also pitching a tax cut plan that the administration is billing as helping the middle class but that most independent experts say is heavily tilted toward the wealthy.
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Lee is being held in a single cell and will not be allowed contact with other inmates, said an official at the Seoul Detention Centre, a facility on the outskirts of the city where arrested politicians and corporate chieftains are usually held, along with other detainees.
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With their forceful intervention in Orange County, national Democrats have lunged into an impatient new phase of the 2018 primary season — one in which they are clashing more openly with candidates and local political chieftains in their drive to assemble a slate of recruits for the midterms.
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With U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude at $74.11 a barrel and global supply shortages showing no signs of abating, chieftains like Core Laboratories President and CEO David Demshur are getting worried that if the world's demand for oil isn't met, prices could skyrocket to dangerous levels.
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John Franzese, who emerged as one of the deadliest, most prosperous and longest-living Mafia chieftains while basking in the company of celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Rocky Graziano, died on Monday, almost three years after he was released from prison because of his advanced age.
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But PTI leader Khan, whose stock has risen since Sharif's ouster, believes the path to victory in Punjab will be through so-called "electables", wealthy and largely fickle politicians who carry large rural vote banks due to their status as feudal lords, tribal chieftains and heads of various clans.
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Nearly 300 executives have visited the White House this year, according to a New York Times tabulation, an open-door policy that is a sharp break with the Obama administration and puts corporate chieftains on par with senior lawmakers in the pecking order of who has influence in Washington.
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Nearly 300 executives have visited the White House this year, according to a New York Times tabulation, an open-door policy that is a sharp break with the Obama administration and puts corporate chieftains on par with senior lawmakers in the pecking order of who has influence in Washington.
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But the elections, which toppled many incumbents in a first round of voting earlier this month, are also a broader renunciation of the status quo, with voters frustrated by a second year of recession and the giant kickback scandal that has led to the arrest dozens of political and corporate chieftains.
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And they have done so in a place that was once considered perhaps the most conservative big city in the country, dominated by the corporate chieftains of the Dallas Citizens Council and where, 92 years ago in October 1923, the flagship annual event, the State Fair of Texas, celebrated Ku Klux Klan Day.
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" And I like the one the Chieftains sing: "The wren, oh the wren he's the king of all birds/on St. Stephen's Day he got caught in the furze/So it's up with the kettle and it's down with the pan/Won't you give us a penny for to bury the wren.
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But this year the champagne may be flowing even more freely than usual in the Swiss Alps resort of Davos, owing to a turn in the global situation pleasing to the sorts of people who make the annual pilgrimage — heads of state, corporate chieftains and those who manage extraordinary piles of money.
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Those returns showed that Romney paid tax at a lower rate than do many middle class Americans, by virtue of the "carried interest" tax loophole on which Romney and other private equity chieftains rely, and further suggested a very aggressive approach to the valuation of private equity partnership interests sold to his retirement accounts.
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Over the past few weeks corporate chieftains from across the economy have lobbied the president through phone calls, open letters, newspaper ads, and his preferred medium of Twitter to convince the president that human-triggered climate change is real and that the 2015 Paris agreement, ratified by 195 countries, is our best chance to limit it.
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In this way, the Democratic candidates have made a clean break with their party's chieftains, who bent the rules to allow Bloomberg to join the debates in the first place—rules which, it should be said, were deployed to chase several candidates, all with a richer history of fealty to the Democratic Party's cause, from the race.
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Not surprisingly, these chieftains of white settler colonies are fierce cultural warriors; they are all affiliated with private donors who build platforms where political correctness, Islam and feminism are excoriated, the facts of injustice and inequality denied, chests thumped about a superior but sadly imperiled Western civilization, and fraternal sympathy extended to Israel, the world's last active settler-colonialist project.
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Best known for designing the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris, Mr. Pei was one of the few architects who were equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards (the third group, of course, often made up of members of the first two).
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