The young elite posing in the bustling cafes and night clubs of Rwanda's capital, Kigali, flaunt English as the language of the strong, of those who resisted the genocide, of the anti-French.
"They don't give a damn about you!" Four years later, LaPierre expanded on the threats the elite posed to encompass free speech, religious liberty, even the ability of people to start small businesses or choose for themselves what kind of healthcare they want.
Through stunts like having a room full of the wealthy elite pose for a group photo with thermal metallic blankets wrapped around their tuxedos and gowns, and reenacting the photo of drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi, he faced a bevy of criticism that overshadowed any useful discussion of his work.
Boies joins an unfortunate tradition of some elites posing as working class heroes/civil rights advocates; when Leonard Bernstein and Marlon Brando went slumming and hosted revolutionaries, however, that was merely an embarrassment.
All of this increases the saliency of fraud and increases demands for serious reforms, adequate resources for the regulators and criminal justice bodies, and makes clear that elite fraud poses a severe danger.
Dons could win themselves some vicarious power by churning out the political elite, while posing as genteel amateurs.
He said it was not al Qaeda, but the struggle among Yemen's political elites that poses the greatest risk to the country's future.
But at the suggestion of friends, she began modeling and was soon taking the train to New York almost daily to work for the Elite agency, posing for catalogs and magazines.
But in the reserve system Prussia found a means of making possible a rapid mobilization of the citizenry without the risk to the regime or the elite officer corps posed by a large standing, and idle, army.
It is this thicket of interests, not ideological conservatism or elite factional rifts, that poses the biggest obstacle to economic change, said Mr. Wu, the former aide who helped design market reforms in the 1980s.
Equally troubling, however, is the threat that elite, resource-rich consortiums pose to the hundreds of small, private colleges across the land.
