Word: democratic
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Gorbachev's tentative domestic reforms have so far succeeded only in disabling the old centrally planned economy without providing an effective replacement. He took over the Communist Party in 1985 thinking he could energize and modernize the existing machinery. He was neither a democrat nor a free-marketeer and described himself as a dedicated Communist. But in time he discovered that the party bureaucrats were blocking him because they oppose change in general and treasure their power and privileges. Gorbachev then decided to try to blast the party out of its executive positions and transfer power to a reconstructed government...
Frank—a Democrat representing Massachusetts’ 4th congressional district since 1981 and an outspoken supporter of Israel—spoke at “The Future of The Middle East: Israel, Iran, and The War on Terror,” an event organized by Harvard Students for Israel and the Harvard College Democrats...
Over 5,500 people packed into the Agganis Arena at Boston University last Friday in what Senator Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat and 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School, called the “largest fundraiser we’ve had.” The sold-out fundraiser marked Obama’s first public appearance in Boston since he declared his candidacy for president in February, and comes just a month after he held a fundraising event at the Cambridge home of Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law David B. Wilkins ’77. But unlike last month?...
...that is what quietly unfolded when former Sen. Sam Nunn, the Georgia Democrat, recently appeared for just over an hour before the Senate Armed Services subcommittee...
...Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama received more than half of the political contributions made by Harvard professors and staff in the first quarter of 2007, according to an analysis of federal disclosure data released Monday. The $78,000 that the Illinois senator raised from Harvard affiliates underscores the depth of support the former Harvard Law Review president and University of Chicago law lecturer enjoys among Harvard professors. Obama’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, took in less than half of Obama’s Harvard total, raising over $33,000 from...