Word: democratization
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...that politics is about compromise. I would rather have an effective President whom I despise as a person than a wrongheaded one who is a good fishing buddy. David P. Vernon Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Bush was thrust into the horror of 9/11, a situation that any President, Republican or Democrat, would have struggled with. It's very easy three years later to criticize the way Bush handled foreign affairs, but at the time we were a nation that was shocked and scared. Bush is a President in a no-win situation. No matter what he does, people will criticize...
COOL UNDER FIRE The battered Democrat insists he will prevail, but Republicans are getting exactly the race they want...
...Democrats were perplexed, depressed and awestruck. How could Cheney get away with saying, in effect, that a vote for Kerry was a vote for terrorism? More to the point, how could Bush get away with, well, everything: a misspent youth, a lifetime of insider trading on the family name, a misfought war, a misleading inference that the invasion of Iraq had some vague relevance to 9/11, a presidency marked by rampant corporate cronyism at home and abroad? "If we can't beat this guy, with this record ..." a prominent Democrat said to me. He was unable to finish the sentence...
...stainless-steel furniture. And there's something Zen-like about Zapatero himself. The Spanish Prime Minister with the beatific smile says his role is not to shape public opinion but to follow it. "I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat," he said in an interview with TIME last week. "I accept that when an overwhelming majority of citizens says something, they are right." Zapatero calls this "citizen's socialism;" the opposition calls it rank populism. Either way it's a far cry from the stubborn conservatism...
...potent one, particularly since most major designers boast fewer paying fans than do most major musicians or actors. It's the kind of trepidation that Stacey Bendet, designer of the line Alice + Olivia, has encountered since co-founding the collective Democracy in Fashion. Bendet, 26, an ardent and open Democrat, has been recruiting designers to affix politically inspired tags to items of clothing in their current collections. One side of the tag explains the group's mission, which is to "unite fashion designers, members of the retail world and consumers to raise money in support of the 2004 Democratic candidates...