41.   We have a political class whose Southern collegiality has always coexisted with a Machiavellian ardor for knock-outs.

42.   When you have a press and a political class that thrive on sharply drawn conflict, can closely reasoned analysis get a serious hearing?

43.   Who gets elected and appointed to whatever directly benefits a very few in the political class.

44.   A worn-out political class tainted by scandals is to blame for the apathy, according to experts and opinion poll results.

45.   After the demise of the decades-dominant political class, the search is on for new political faces.

46.   Berlusconi jumped into politics a year ago with his newly created Forza Italia party after corruption scandals discredited virtually an entire political class.

47.   But the communist political classes can go years between admissions of error.

48.   But the seven ministers he named Sunday -- half the Cabinet -- were all from the discredited traditional political class.

49.   But the new century has brought disillusionment with a political class that has failed to live up to promises of a better era.

50.   Chavez is popular among the poor majority because of his informal manner and political reforms, which ousted an entrenched political class widely accused of corruption.