His patients may be leftists, Kurds, transvestites, criminals and, most recently, Islamists.
But she may not be leftist enough for France's François Hollande, and she is handicapped because Denmark, like Britain, is outside the euro.
The portrayal of large corporations as evil incarnate and of "little guys" as innocent victims may be sound leftist theology, but I would expect more of a Supreme Court justice.
The election in October may install the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential palace.
The message was apparently ignored by voters, whatever their sleeping habits.France's diehard ultra-leftists may argue that Ms Royal failed because she was not true enough to her revolutionary calling.
Instead, embassy officials told Edmund Horman that leftists may have kidnapped his son, contradicting their own cables home, which quoted neighbors who said they had witnessed Chilean security forces taking Mr. Horman away.
The Soviet Union collapsed and other radical leftists may have grown disillusioned, but as she sips tea and dips into a fruit plate at a diner on Seventh Avenue in Chelsea, Ms. Griswold exudes the impregnable optimism of a true believer.
Foreign leftists may feel let down by the cuts, said Sweig, the analyst, but in Havana the thriving parallel economy fed optimism that the private sector will soak up laid-off public sector workers.
The strike, which devastated Mexico's most important university and divided its society, gave a preview of the vexing challenges the new leftists may pose to the region's young democracies.
There is concern that the new elections may bolster anti-austerity leftist parties, raising the possibility of a major split with creditor nations and adding to the likelihood of a Greek exit from the euro.
