Word: elected
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...meeting, the committee will elect representatives to college committees such as the Committees on House Life, College Life and the Core...
...Leave it to us baby boomers to have helped elect for the country a President who wants to make love, not war." JOHN ALDRIDGE San Diego...
Here's why: When Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992, there were 28 Democratic Governors. Now there are just 17, and they cover only 25% of the country's population. With 18 G.O.P. incumbents running this year, Republicans will at worst maintain their count of 32 governorships, and probably will pick up at least three more. And they'll do it in some improbable places. In Connecticut, which has recently leaned toward Democrats, incumbent John Rowland is running 40 points ahead of Barbara Kennelly, daughter of the state's most powerful Democratic don. Colorado may elect its first Republican...
Today, too, our judgment of Clinton must deal not only with him as a man but with the link between the presidency and the people. I don't want the President to stay, as Clinton likes to say, to "do the job we elected him to do." I don't believe he is capable of doing that job any longer. I want him to stay because I helped elect him to do that job, and no other power, in the absence of necessity, should freely choose to invalidate my vote. The people's hold on power is too tenuous...
...begins to regain some of its lost legitimacy among the administration. "I don't take the [council's] vote as a representative vote," remarked Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 last year. "The people who are casting [council] votes do not have to represent those who elect them." But what would our Dean say if the council's recommendation had roots in a significant campus-wide dialogue? By allowing administrative policy to become subject to greater student scrutiny, the council could do more to effect changes than if they had tried directly to effect it themselves...