With Mr Kirchner's death, the political era engendered by the chastening collapse of 2001 is drawing to a close.
He joked that he had read in the press that the English translation of his name was "embittered" - making him suited to be the last prime minister of a political era.
Perhaps if we are lucky, their attention may fall on the following chart that summarizes the political calculus of the era.
As the political advisors from that era get older, one can hope that a more rational set of heads will prevail.
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Iran has been led by a highly conservative clerical elite since 1979, but appeared to be entering another era of political and social transformation with the victory of the liberals in parliamentary elections in 2000.
In some ways, this is the sad story of a scientist who probably wanted nothing more than to work peacefully in the lab and classroom, but was pushed one way and another by the great political currents of his era, from McCarthyism to Maoism.
Libya's parliament has passed a law banning officials from the Gaddafi era from holding political office.
In this era of bitter political animosities, how was it possible to reach this accord?
The 20- or 30-year cycle for successful implementation is the political equivalent of the Cenozoic era.
After three decades of President Suharto-- an era characterized by political repression, corruption and theft--many Indonesians are impatient for change.
Spain's last political tie to the Franco era was cut with the defeat of 82-year-old Manuel Fraga in Galicia .
They had discovered that a bygone era of world political history had made it possible to date unidentified human remains more precisely than other forensic methods.
In any event, reregulation isn't likely in an era when the political momentum seems to be moving more in the direction of smaller government and fewer regulations.
In the era of leftist political correctness with its founding principle that Western power is evil and that the freedom to harm democracies is inviolate, can democracies defend their security and national interests?
The Voting Rights Act was a monumental political achievement during the Civil Rights era.
Meanwhile, the South African government will probably find a way to spare those who confess to political crimes committed during the apartheid era from prosecution.
While the current era of bureaucracy and political correctness, with its new requirements of integrating women and openly gay individuals, is indeed challenging, it can be dealt with without compromising naval excellence.
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Political experts said that in this era of celebrity worship and obsession with reality television stars, the ability to connect on some sort of personal level with everyday voters takes on heightened importance.
Javier Rebolledo, author of a book about human rights violations carried out by the secret police under military rule, had his computer hard disk stolen and Cristobal Pena, who wrote a political thriller set in the Pinochet era, had his entire computer stolen, Mr Weibel told Chilean radio.
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Like so much in South Africa, the taxi business is rooted in the political and economic distortions of the apartheid era, when the white-minority government forced blacks, whites and other ethnic groups to live in separate areas.
In political relations, the 2001-2006 Koizumi era is certain to be the last instance of willful Japanese defiance toward China.
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By doing so, they have made once-unthinkable governance paradigms viable alternatives to the era of bureaucratic drift and the political Frankenstein of large combo utilities and multi-layered regulators that benefit from it.
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Moulitsas and Jane Hamsher, founder of firedoglake.com, stopped by to talk about liberal blogging in the Obama era as well as their new political venture to help fund primary opponents against Democrats who they believe are not representing their constituents' views.
Even during the Soviet era, these shadowy cliques manoeuvred for political power in Tashkent.
Now, in the era of super PACs and other outside political groups, such workarounds are no longer necessary.
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So, the media's essential political roles have become even more significant in the modern era.
Moreover, the 2005 NRW election introduced an era of fragmentation and disenchantment in the German political landscape.
Mr. Najib announced plans to repeal the colonial-era legislation as part of a series of political reforms aimed at allowing greater freedom of expression in this still tightly policed nation of 28 million.
Zbigniew Libera, whose political cartoons had him jailed for a year during the communist era, became a household name last year when he made a model of a Nazi concentration camp from Lego building blocks.
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