Word: democratization
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Galluccio, who defeated fellow Democrat Timothy R. Flaherty in the primary Tuesday, will run unopposed in October’s general election. The special election was held after the early resignation of Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 in July...
...resurrect a sense of obligation to our country besides taxes and voting. One way to help accomplish this would be to institute a draft. Everyone should be obligated to serve the country in some fashion. Maybe then we would stop identifying ourselves with narrow labels such as liberal, conservative, Democrat and Republican and move toward what Patrick Henry expressed in saying "I am not a Virginian, but an American...
...When Petraeus offered the good news that he soon would order a 2,000-Marine unit home, Senator Biden, the Delaware Democrat at the helm of the foreign relations session, noted that the unit was simply coming to the end of its scheduled combat tour. "They are scheduled to come out," Petraeus conceded, "but I could have easily requested an extension of them...
...post. As the longest-serving member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the group that regulates the nuclear industry, Edward McGaffigan earned a reputation as a scholarly analyst who could be blunt and acerbic with critics. Asked whether new plants should be required to withstand rogue-airplane attacks, the Democrat offered, "When they change the law to require absolute assurance of perfect protection, there won't be a lot of nuclear reactors in this country. Also, there won't be a lot of cars or McDonald's." He was 58 and had melanoma...
...assumed there would be a lot of partisan bickering over the new approaches being taken. But that hasn't happened. Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, came down and worked out ways to provide incentives for the teachers and educators willing to move there. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, a former Education Secretary, have also become deeply involved in finding practical solutions to the myriad federal bureaucratic challenges that come with building a new type of system from scratch...