Its opinion pages reflect the mood of Pakistan's dominant political establishment, cautious but generally favorable toward the United States.
When she launched her last bid for the White House in January 2007, Clinton was the ultimate establishment candidate: cautious, calculating, hawkish on defence (to the point of voting for the war in Iraq), and reactive rather than breaking new ground.
While trying to appeal to these voters, they also need to be cautious around the governing establishment of conservative clerics and Revolutionary Guards commanders — the so-called traditionalists — who suspect Mr. Rowhani of secretly siding with the opposition and Mr. Ghalibaf of being a closet pragmatist rather than a revolutionary.
At least on the surface, the 1970s were dominated, in Los Angeles as elsewhere, by large and often cautious public buildings by establishment firms.
Rouhani, long known as a cautious and mild-mannered establishment insider, reinvented himself as a bold champion of reform during the election campaign, which culminated on Friday in victory with more than 57percentt of the vote.
Once candidates are vetted they are still cautious about offending the governing establishment of conservative clerics and Revolutionary Guards commanders.
In recent days, Crown Prince Abdullah, the kingdom's day-to-day ruler, has urged members of the country's religious establishment to "be cautious" in what he called "difficult days" for Saudi Arabia after the Sept. 11 attacks.
He proceeded with cautious reforms such as the establishment of fiscal and military ministries and the introduction of a national customs tariff, which was soon abandoned because of opposition from Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Many of the new populists also see the Democratic establishment as far too cautious in confronting what they see as broad inequities in the tax code.
The debate on this issue is seen as part of a wider struggle between advocates of cautious reform and the conservative religious establishment.
