Word: democratization
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...husband, Wolfgang, a steelworker and union shop steward at ThyssenKrupp Stahl, in his silver blast-furnace smock and hard hat. The real surprise was not the larger-than-life apparition of Herr Teusch and his frayed walrus moustache, but the poster's message: an endorsement from this lifelong Social Democrat of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (cdu). "Did you see the poster? How can anyone who works at Thyssen join that party?" Angela says, recalling the outrage of her colleagues that day. As she draws on a cigarette in her sparsely furnished kitchen, the wiry redhead repeats her response...
DIED. LLOYD CUTLER, 87, consummate lawyer, mediator and Washington insider who, as a private attorney representing clients from IBM to American Express, and as White House counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, won the admiration of Democrats and Republicans for his expertise in navigating crises; in Washington. The courtly intellectual's feats of diplomacy included persuading the deposed Shah of Iran to leave the U.S. for Panama during the Iranian hostage crisis; helping manage the media during Clinton's Whitewater flap; and urging onetime client Mick Jagger to wear a tie to Washington's tony Metropolitan Club...
...ours at Princeton for years, and a close colleague of mine before I ever knew he was a Republican,” says Blinder. “If you just read his scholarship, there would be no way you could tell if he was a Republican or a Democrat...
...Senator Clinton's supporters will say she is that candidate. And it is true that Clinton has far more leeway to run as a moderate than almost any other Democrat. Her repositioning on social issues has been overrated-she will have to do more than merely "respect" those who oppose abortion; she will have to propose creative compromises...
...eager to change the storyline that House Speaker Dennis Hastert got a standing ovation when he announced, at a private meeting with House Republicans in the Capitol basement last week, that he was ready to sound a retreat on changes in House ethics rules that he engineered last December. Democrats on the House ethics committee, which is the only one where they hold as many seats as Republicans, had shut it down to protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that it had been designed...