Silver has some non-journalists along for advanced analysis, though nobody with conventional reporting experience, while Klein has similarly brought along a brilliant team of bloggers, but few of their true blue newsroom compatriots.
A truer postmodernist was his compatriot Alessandro Mendini, who had established the Studio Alchimia group even before Memphis.
Then in 1994, the dream shared by Getz and thousands of his compatriots finally came true.
A nation composed entirely of rugged individualists — so stinting that they had almost no needs, so solitary that those needs never conflicted with those of their compatriots — would not, it is true, need much governance.
This is wrong: his play has much more in common with that of Rosewall and his compatriot Rod Laver, great touch players and true artists of the court, not the modern power hitters.
The educated Russian was no longer a servile and mute slave of the tsars; he had made himself into a gentleman, a man of heart and honour, a "true son of the fatherland," concerned about his compatriots and his country's condition and future.
Would they not be justified, from a democratic point of view, to abandon majority rule, to identify their own will with the true will of the people, and to subject their compatriots to a re-educative dictatorship?
"It's true that my hero was Marco Pantani," Nibali says as he recalls a compatriot who won both the Giro and the Tour in 1998 – a year scarred by the infamous Festina affair, which reduced the sport to a circus of cheating.
In this, I dare say, that my homeland and a large number of my fellow compatriots have failed, giving this once great nation a terrible but true reputation for both ignorance and cruelty.
It's true that Marx was highly doctrinaire, something that did not wear well with his compatriots in the nineteenth century, and that certainly does not wear well today, after the experience of the regimes conceived in his name.
Even if Vietnam does keep opening up, there is another reason to downplay America's influence: shocking though it may be to Mr Clinton and his compatriots, there is a big difference between liberalising and Americanising.That is especially true in Vietnam.
