51.   But Bill Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the UN, said Iraq is diverting aid from poor people who need it to the ruling class.

52.   But the economic misery they created punishes millions of common Iraqis, not the elite ruling class of the harsh regime.

53.   Causes that have been suggested include overpopulation, disease, insect plagues, peasant revolts against the ruling classes, civil wars and climate change.

54.   Communism to them is just a tool to maintain themselves or the interests of the ruling class.

55.   During white domination, the fictional Evita personified the hypocrisies of the apartheid ruling class.

56.   Even so, throughout his career, Springsteen has detected where America was heading long before the focus groups and pollsters have alerted the cloistered ruling class.

57.   For a long time, the steady flow of illegals from the south has served as a vital economic and political safety valve for the Mexican ruling class.

58.   For centuries, the Tutsi have been the ruling class here, and their leaders see any intervention as a threat to their wealth and power.

59.   From Pliny to Julius Caesar to Augustus, the ruling class devoured the stuff.

60.   For the past century, Iranians have struggled for democracy and challenged the ruling classes.