Rafsanjani's dramatic entrance and precipitous fall has shone a light on the growing fractures within elite politics in Iran.
But its elite politics remains an intricate and frustrating puzzle to be tackled with crude techniques and unreliable sources.
"Their skin is very thick, " Zhang Ming, an expert on elite politics at Beijing's Renmin University in Beijing, said of the new left.
Second, both embody an anti-elite politics.
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Come on. provocative language Wellington, FL is near the heartbeat of East Coast wealthy, elite progressive politics where being a conservation is regarded as the politically incorrect social form of human leprocy.
First, Northridge was a sleepy, third-tier commuter school with nothing like the pressure-cooker politics of its elite neighbor.
During the past six weeks she has become an icon for those unhappy with the government's grip on politics and the elite's hold on the economy.
During his 32 years of authoritarian rule, Mr Suharto kept politics as the preserve of an elite few.
The ICC has destabilized Kenya's politics but introduced a new measure of elite accountability, raising the cost of elite-driven violence to a level that has meant the tribal vitriol of previous electioneering hasn't been in such evidence this time around.
The key to the puzzle is politics, and in particular the divide between elite and rank-and-file practitioners of that trade.
Many Chinese see business, society and politics as dominated by a party-connected elite and wonder if Xi, as the son of a revolutionary veteran, has the political will to take on entrenched interests.
Years later, as a successful and philanthropic businessman, he recognizes his childhood abductor, Yar Badshah (Jamil Malik), who is capping a career as enslaver, drug dealer and murderer by entering politics - with the backing of the feudal elite whose dirty work he has been doing for so long.
The son of a Hungarian immigrant, who did not go to one of France's elite schools, Sarkozy had to fight his way to the top of politics by sheer strength of will.
When politics becomes a machine for generating and rewarding wealth for a tiny elite, neither our pride nor our more primal appetite for material goods are offended most.
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This is the new politics, a world away from the preoccupations of old Westminster and the political elite.
It has been observed that ideas that become conventional wisdom in everything from politics to culture were often born 20 or so years earlier in the radical thinking of a small elite.
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