She felt like she was back in high school, trying to break into an elite clique.
The bribes, he suggests, are split between Chinese state-owned partners and members of the ruling clique.
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But even Mr Karadzic's arrest would not mean the downfall of the Pale clique.
The unassuming 54-year-old says his international success has given him more creative freedom outside the Broadway clique.
From films to television and book-publishing, Iran's official culture is now dominated by a small, pro-government clique.
The Arabs under Mr Arafat are the victims of a corrupt clique that cares little about its people.
The "realist" view was given clear expression this week by one of the "realist" clique's most prominent members.
This underscores the futility of trying to disarm Iraq without removing Hussein and his ruling clique from power.
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"Acorn has been hijacked by a power-hungry clique that has its own political and personal agendas, " she told me.
In the 1950s, prime minister Jigmi Dorji, Benji's father, led a clique of young nobles bent on modernizing Bhutan.
In 2004 I directed my first digital movie called Death Clique, all shot using a Panasonic DVX100 camera.
In government as it was in opposition, true control is vested in the same clique that ran Labour's election campaign.
Holding the leadership role in each clique was the person who best personified the attributes at the heart of the group.
The reality is that brute force has kept Saddam Hussein and his ruling clique in power for over almost two decades.
Perhaps the same calculation has been made by the relatively small clique of Shia militants behind the renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Howson became established in the 1980s as one of the "New Glasgow Boys", a clique of painters concerned with portraying social issues.
They want Mrs Plavsic to defeat the Pale clique, so that their efforts to knit Bosnia together have some chance of success.
As for Thailand, its ultra-rich clique clocks in at 65 years.
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In fact, Putin and his ruling clique are deeply hostile to America.
Divisions within the ruling clique mean that the president has been unable to fill scores of key posts at middle levels of government.
But it's the high price of oil that has kept the economy going and notably enriched a clique of Putin friends from St.
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Only Pyongyang's ruling clique knows what it hopes to achieve by all this, but at least two plausible scenarios could link this pair of provocations.
The author's insights into Mrs Thatcher's working methods and the strange clique of zealots who provided her with the intellectual confidence to change Britain are fascinating.
It's a complete no-no, and as such the political dynamic is similar to the coziness of the political-financial clique that people are so pissed off with.
Tom Hayden, who challenged Mr Riordan in the latest mayoral election, argues that the city is in effect governed by a clique of rich white men.
Mr Assad rapidly filled their positions, but in a country governed by a clique held together by personal loyalty, the dead men will not easily be replaced.
Our correspondent says Algerians know that parliament is toothless, unable to hold accountable either the government or the military clique which holds real power in the country.
And when it comes to scary, Marcia Gay Harden's born-again proselytizer is fearsome enough to convince Drayton and his clique to take their chances with the beasties.
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