For the educated, English-speaking Indian elite, the alternative is worse.
Elites and Alternatives -- Absentee Owners of America by Peter Barnes, THE NEW REPUBLIC, Washington D.C., March 31, 1973 - Not available online here.
The ethnocentric logic of a new elite dissolved alternative ideals under the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism.
However, due to water conservation efforts, this is not seen as a long-term sustainable option and alternative elite surfaces that do not require water are being researched.
It is not just presidents and elites calling for alternatives to prohibition - people are taking it to the streets.
Before there were artisanal-cheese mongers in Williamsburg there were painters, performance artists, tattoos, eccentrics, an alternative-culture elite.
At a time of economic slump and people casting around for an alternative, that elite will only feel secure when they can dance on the grave of trade unionism.
At 42 he is the star member of a rising generation of Fatah leaders seen as the common man's alternative to elite, corrupt ministers around Mr. Arafat, though not to Mr. Arafat himself.
To diminish that influence, the Pinochet government slashed the university's budget, closed many of its faculties, broke up its campuses outside Santiago into autonomous regional schools and financially propped up the Catholic University as a conservative alternative for elite students.
The strategy, based on the co-option of a local black elite as a moderate alternative to SWAPO, was intended to placate international opinion while leaving control of Namibia in South African hands and keeping its military options open.
If you are prepared to play in front of a few puzzled locals for $10,000 in, say, Cambodia, multiplying that purse by a factor of a hundred or more for some inconsequential matches in front of much bigger television audiences against the game's elite is an attractive alternative.
