Word: commandeer
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...limited and fleeting public good like a free concert is in no way reflective of this organization's "credibility." The fact that it can throw money at people to put on a show says nothing for the council's effectiveness of representation, its broadening influence with administrators or its command of students' respect. These are the elements of "credibility...
...Theodore Beaubrun Jr., leader of the voodoo rock band Boukman Eksperyans, "everyone makes their own justice." Mobs play judge and jury, hacking people to death for crimes real or imagined. The omnipresent "popular organizations," self-proclaimed local leaders who act as watchdog, pressure group and enforcer of political correctness, command the masses and own the real power. "The popular organizations control this city," says Jean Robert Lalannes, a Cap Haitien radio-station director threatened with death after he criticized Aristide. "The vacuum of state authority is complete...
Like many politicians and privileged sons of his era, Forbes avoided the major conflict of his generation, the Vietnam War, by enlisting in the National Guard. His idea of cultural rebellion was to decline to join one of Princeton's exclusive eating clubs. As second-in-command at his family's publishing empire, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, Forbes did not act on suggestions that his father, widely rumored to be bisexual, had propositioned male employees. When two squabbling secretaries did not want to work side by side in his outer office, his solution was to build...
...splinter group is trying to call a halt to the negotiations, but the sheer scale of the operation implies that a large efficient group did the job. Hillenbrand calls the operation "a very professional, very clean job. The bombers could be very high up the IRA chain of command...
Against such pessimism,the Dole high command presses on. "But most of us," says Walter Morse, "have been too busy with our real jobs to do much." Morse is more than a bit player. He is the sheriff of Hillsborough, New Hampshire's most populous county. "The sheriffs are key," Dole told me last summer. "They're the major grass-roots force in the state." Unfortunately for Dole, the other sheriffs echo Morse. "We'll get the signs up," says Sheriff Wayne Vetter of Rockingham County. "But it's tough. Forbes should have peaked by now. He hasn...