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There went my theory that the book's sales (advertised as 800,000) reflected warehouse-size orders from the same cabal that inflated the numbers for Ancient Evenings , The Closing of the American Mind , A Brief History of Time , and many other supposed huge sellers that you've never actually seen outside a bookstore.
A Wall Street Journal front-page feature takes a close look at Afghanistan's ruling cabal, the Taliban, a regime the paper says the world had better get used to, since it's become pretty firmly ensconced.
The Crusaders convinced themselves the Jews were a secret cabal with insidious powers, out to destroy Christendom.
Note, however, that, as one observer argues, if the TP is entirely true (Willey did muss her own clothes, etc.), assisting in its preparation would not be unethical or tantamount to subornation of perjury--though it would then be most unlikely that the TP was prepared by Moody or a right-wing cabal.
The Constitution grew out of a convention held in 1787 by a cabal of elite politicians, including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who decided that the nation's founding document, the Articles of Confederation, was too weak to hold the . But many citizens eyed the Constitutional Convention of 1787 warily, worrying that a strengthened federal authority would metamorphose into precisely the sort of tyranny they had just toppled.