Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lounging around on Cloud 1787, a few of the Founding Fathers are conducting a seminar on the handiwork of 201 years ago. "The thing I cannot understand," says Franklin, "is why they keep quarreling over this nomination business." Madison, ever the detail man, replies, "We told them how to elect...
Nonetheless, the intentions of those who created this monster were honorable. Since the beginning of this century, progressives have fought for primaries as the most representative way of choosing the delegates who would select the party's ticket. What evolved was a mixed system. Candidates who needed to prove their...
Party discipline, waning in the mid-'60s, had its last hurrah at the 1968 Democratic Convention, where the barons forced the nomination of Hubert Humphrey. That provoked a spasm of reform that had stunning (and debilitating) success. The first in a series of party commissions radically altered the rules in...
"Deportations are the maximum deterrent we have today," said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. "We use it with people who cannot be reformed." Though the vast majority of Israelis agreed with Shamir, the decision was denounced by Israel's friends and enemies alike. Declaring that the expulsions violated the Geneva Convention...
All too often, though, the two terms are not so easily distinguished. Many a criminal trial, after all, revolves around precisely that gray area where the two begin to blur. Was Bernhard Goetz just a volatile Everyman, ourselves pushed to the limit, and then beyond? Or was he in fact...