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...think we have been naive or apathetic citizens unless we think of them as clay from head to foot. It is also fashionable in intellectual circles to deride the police and the army as merely instruments of imperialism and authoritarian repression, a stance which makes respect for the executive branch of government even more difficult...
...every branch of the media kept telling me, they were exactly...
...This is the sort of thing which is making thisuniversity into a branch of the Democratic Party,"he said, to the accompaniment of laughter andgrimaces by his colleagues...
...year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia still lacks the kind of political institutions that would ensure the continuity of reforms without Yeltsin. Attempts to establish a system of checks and balances are not faring well. The legislature is paralyzed by unending battles with the executive branch. The new constitutional court must work without a proper constitution. The government has to listen to such a deafening chorus of calls for its resignation that ministers cannot concentrate on the business of reform. It falls to the President to keep the operation of state on track. Says Burbulis: "The majority...
...truth, of course, is that Arkansas is all of these things: inner-city crime, hill country poverty, a progressive and inclusive executive branch, a regressive, tired legislature. It is Bill Clinton, the Yale Law School graduate, and Kara Alexander, the illiterate mother. It is the smart young reformers who dominate politics and the book stores where Rush Limbaugh is the biggest seller...