In lieu of full sovereignty, the revolutionaries seemed determined to retain the one place where they had managed to assert power.
If Rem Koolhaas, the profession's reigning intellectual prince, casts a long shadow, it's clear that plenty of emerging architects have managed to assert strong creative voices of their own.
In telling us to Dress Normal to assert our true selves, The Gap has managed to create what the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard called "immanent reversal" where things become their opposite (Enlightenment become control, culture becomes the culture industry).
She has managed to remain completely ignorant about the fact that President Obama has asserted and exercised the power to secretly place human beings, including US citizens, on his "kill list" and then order the CIA to extinguish their lives.
He says his force has managed to capture or kill a number of criminal leaders and the resulting vacuum has further fanned the violence as lower-ranking criminals use all the brutality they can to assert their authority.
It has helped that Palestinian militants, whether by choice or because the Palestinian Authority (PA) has belatedly managed to assert some authority in Gaza, have suspended their periodic mortar and rocket fire on the settlements.Soon, then, the focus will shift to the settlers' new living conditions.
What is more, it has not intervened in the democratic process.The national police, meanwhile, have indeed managed to assert themselves as the country's enforcers of law, including taking the initiative against Indonesia's home-grown Islamist extremists.
He mentioned the word tax or taxes about 40 times, mostly to assert that he had managed to drive them down.
"In this police state," he asserts, "I've managed to gain freedom of thought by pretending to be dead.
