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Here on the second floor Boston’s great orators raised their voices against British tyranny, against slavery, and female oppression.
Nobuyuki Idei, the new president of Sony--whose major films last year featured expensive stars and either flopped or broke even--has declared that his first priority for Hollywood is to liberate it from the tyranny of stars . Why do stars get paid so much money?
Frank Fahrenkopf, the industry's top lobbyist (who is paid so much he can afford monogrammed shirt cuffs --I saw them), holds forth cheerfully outside the ballroom, celebrating the electoral triumph of freedom over religious moralist tyranny.
How about “oppressive tendency” or even tyranny once again?
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.