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\"When the notorious I.A. Cهocha is captured by the Olympus Commonwealth and revealed to be a sixteen-year-old girl, she is sentenced to correctional rehabilitation at a training ground for the elite Star Force where she forms unlikely alliances\"-- Provided by publisher.

Criminal mastermind and unrivaled pilot Ia Cهocha and her allies make unpredictable choices as they fight to keep darkness from eclipsing the skies.

PurposeFor many, the claim that a new approach to bureaucracy—new political governance (NPG)—is underway reads as if it was written by Stephen King: Frightening fiction. While the thought of promiscuously partisan senior public servants publicly defending and promoting the government’s reputation to the demise of impartiality is disturbing, the evidentiary record has led most to dismiss the idea as empirically false. This article questions, and empirically investigates, whether dismissing the idea of promiscuous partisanship has been premature.Design/methodology/approachA case study of the loyalty displayed by Canada’s most senior public servant during a highly publicized parliamentary committee is analysed with a novel theoretical and empirical approach in three steps. First, the Clerk of the Privy Council (Clerk)’s committee testimony is analysed against analytical constructs of impartial and promiscuous partisan loyalty that focuses on the testimony’s direction and substance. Second, the objectivity and truthfulness of the testimony is analysed by comparing what was publicly claimed to have occurred against evidence submitted to the committee that provids an independent record of events. Third, the perception the Clerk’s testimony had on some committee members, political journalists and members of the public is analysed through print media and committee Hansard.FindingsWhile the Clerk’s testimony displays an awareness of upholding impartiality, it also comprises promiscuous partisanship. Throughout his testimony, the Clerk redirects from the line of questioning to defend and promote the sitting government’s reputation. Moreover, to defend and promote the government’s reputation the Clerk’s testimony moved away from objectivity and engaged in truth-obfuscating tactics. Finally, the nature of the Clerk’s testimony was perceived by some committee members and the public—including former senior public servants—as having abandoned impartiality to have become a public “cheerleader” of the government.Research limitations/implicationsEmploying an in-depth case study limits the extent to which the findings concerning the presence of promiscuously partisan loyalty can be generalized beyond the present case to the larger cadre of senior public servants.Originality/valueEmpirically, while most research has dismissed claims of promiscuous partisanship as empirically unfounded, this article provides what is possibly the strongest empirical case to date of a public incident of promiscuous partisanship at the apex of the bureaucracy. As such, scholars can no longer dismiss NPG as an interesting idea without much empirical leverage. Theoretically, this article adds further caution to Aucoin’s original narrative of NPG by suggesting that promiscuous partisanship might not only involve senior public servants defending and promoting the government, but that doing so may push them to engage in truth-obfuscating tactics, and therein, weaken the public’s confidence in political institutions. The novel theoretical and empirical approach to studying senior public servants’ parliamentary testimony can be used by scholars in other settings to expand the empirical study of bureaucratic loyalty.

Monica has the chance of a lifetime: she's been asked to ride with her friends in a parade! But the problem is, the parade is for the Rock Creek football team, and they're Pine Tree Middle School's rivals in the big game. How can she support her school and her friends from Rock Creek, and still ride in the parade?

The writer aims to foster the appropriation of this reflection on the part of the reader. Because Feuchtwanger's notion of historical fiction-that it comments on the epoch of its composition-coincides with contemporary views of the genre, this approach to Jud Süß seems promising. According to J. Friedrich Battenberg, Jews were forbidden to bear arms until the mid-seventeenth century. Noblemen reject Süß as inferior and deem counterfeit his attempts to fit in. Because Süß cultivates noble tastes as a Jewish public figure, he threatens nobles' authority; Süß's flamboyant lifestyle posits his belonging to the ruling class, even though he is not acknowledged as one of its members. Since the state cannot be trusted to fulfill its promises, the novel suggests, Jews should follow Süß's example and renounce the political sphere as a realm at odds with their interests and ultimately closed to them.

In good times and in bad, this rabbit will always be your friend.

Two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austens work surprises with an unexpected modernity and actuality. Her novels have been adapted for TV and the big screen, and sequels have been written by enthusiastic followers. This study is conducted to assess the effects of the importance of Jane's thoughts in modern community, such as social injustice, power of hope, accuracy, challenge, loyalty, free will, self-improvement and honour, and how her fiction affected the audience till nowadays. Her modernity is seen through the mirror of realism, feminism, morality, and postcolonialism.

\"Batman supports his friends and protects his city. He keeps his word to Commissioner Gordon, always ready to serve alongside the Gotham City police. When villains like Clayface cause chaos, Batman bravely leaps into battle. When Robin works to learn new skills, Batman is there to cheer him on. Batman is loyal!\"--Provided by publisher.

This article will investigate Russian literature of the last decade, in particular, fantastic literature, consisting of all kinds of anti‐utopian novels. But these works do not simply revive certain allegorical, apocalyptic ways of criticizing the system, well known from the science fiction of the Soviet Union. My main thesis is that these works also develop a new poetics of anti‐utopian writing about current utopian and dissident concepts of the Russian state. Whereas Soviet “scientific fantasy” (Nauchnaia fantastika)–as the Soviet equivalent for the term science fiction was called–starting with the Thaw period in the late 1950s because of censorship developed different ways of fictionally mystifying and allegorizing the political, post‐Soviet “Fantastika” successfully trivializes and subverts current ideas of an omnipresent authority. Whereas Soviet science fiction went to outer space, to extrapolate all the concealed conflicts and suppressed belongings into other worlds, post‐Soviet fantastic literature goes underground, inside the matrix, explores the inner space of postsocialist belongings between loyalty and dissidence to the state.