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...collection. "We have to face the situation as it is," he says. "I know the task seems impossible. But I am not afraid, because in my head my vision is very clear." Preval, says a Port-au-Prince political commentator, "will be lucky if he gets three months" to enact that vision before people revolt. Strikes, protests, barricaded roads could easily degenerate into violence and upheaval--a "crisis of ungovernability," as former President Leslie Manigat puts it--and that could trigger another boat exodus...
...nine people on the City Council. I think that all of them want to be mayor at some time or another and someone serving twice prevents them from [enjoying] this opportunity." Of course, Duehay and the Independents don't really mind the impasse because they are enable to enact their own executive policies as controllers of City Hall. And if the stalemate continues, Duehay will be able to delegate control of city government to committees of council members, the heads of which he will appoint. Pending no further council action, Duehay will have effective control over taxes, education, housing...
Predictably, civil libertarians are uneasy about the proposal, seeing it as yet another assault on free speech in cyberspace. Congress has already signaled its intent to enact legislation that would criminalize "indecent" speech online, rather than adopting the less onerous restriction against "obscene" speech that is the print standard...
When asked how he might enact his proposal. Bradley said he hopes to spur on-going grassroots reform by creating a "narrative" by which to discuss today's political issues...
WASHINGTON, D.C. President Clinton vetoed a Republican-sponsored welfare reform bill Tuesday evening, calling the plan "burdened with deep budget cuts and structural changes that fall short of real reform." But he quickly reiterated his longstanding commitment to welfare reform, pledging to work with congressional Republicans "to enact real, bipartisan welfare reform." Lacking the votes to override Clinton's veto, his 12th, the reaction from Republican congressional leaders was anything but sanguine. "He must now demonstrate what he is for," House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer (R-Tex.) said. "No vague statement of principles. No unkept promises. I expect...