41. In the days when pamphleteers demanded democracy, they were fighting a ruling class whose power and position was obvious to all. 42. The ruling class was clearly visible in terms of its life-style, attitudes, accents and political and social dominance. 43. Although fans of ultraviolent first-person shooter games helped establish the culture of online gaming, there now is an entirely new ruling class. 44. Although fans of ultraviolent first-person shooter games like Doom and Quake helped establish the culture of online gaming, there now is an entirely new ruling class. 45. And what if that underclass were white and the ruling class were black? 46. And there are the mullahs themselves, clerics who have taken over properties confiscated from those among the old ruling class who did not survive the upheaval. 47. Anyone who visits China even briefly senses in all kinds of people, in the ruling class and outside, a fear of chaos. 48. Bin Laden was born into the ruling class of Saudi Arabia. 49. Aleman, a coffee grower, counts as his advisers mainly the wealthy landowners and businessmen of the traditional ruling class. 50. Bush has been supported by a Republican ruling class whose nabobs -- Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld -- date back to the Ford administration. |