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After a sweeping victory fueled by lofty ideological promises and happy family portraits, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio woke up on Wednesday to a crueler reality: a $2 billion hole in the next city budget, a dysfunctional state legislature skeptical about his tax plan, a police department frozen by a federal lawsuit and municipal unions clamoring for raises.
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They also reveal one of the irreducible, grim absurdities of this war, which is the disjunction between its lofty strategic and ideological imperatives and the dusty, frustrating reality on the ground.
This is especially the case for an American generation that has grown up learning about Cuba in lofty -- and often ideological -- terms.
For President Obama, this means that he cannot, as he did after his election four years ago, abandon his campaign fire and struggle to become the lofty statesman, grandly rising above partisanship and ideological conviction.
The results show that practitioner views of the common good are far removed from the lofty ideals of planning theory and reflect the ideological shift of planners within an institution that has been heavily neoliberalised since the 1970s.
These men had joined the PDPA not because of ideological reasons, but instead due to their lofty political ambitions.
The news seems to divide between ideological (and military) grandstanding and allegations of graft.Russia's government is not unique in combining lofty rhetoric with greasy palms.
Academic freedom allows scholarly inquiry free of external ideological constraints, but also participation in the university's petty politics and discussion of its lofty goals, without fear of the ultimate retribution from colleagues or administration: getting fired.
To avoid this ideological trap, Jackson tells his story in an evenhanded way, describing the egotism, violence and treachery that surfaced alongside loftier reactions.
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