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...have not created a framework for discussion based on the evaluation that the council labored over," councillor Marjorie C. Decker said...
...rather diffuse rationale for his own political and policy efforts. He was as shaken by the tragedy as the country was, but instead of simply talking about lawlessness, he talked about the larger issue, that you cannot "love your country but despise your government." He put it in the framework of American political argument over the past 20 years in a way that was poignant, moving and powerful...
...need a Constitutional amendment to avoid another mess like Tuesday's, but it's unfair to blame the architects of the U.S. Constitution. They simply put the framework of an Electoral College into being, specifying that each state would choose an elector for each of its U.S. Senators and members of Congress. The rest was left to Congress and the states, and when the national party systems took shape in the 1820s, the states began to have voters choose party slates of electors when they voted for President. Most electoral-vote results became winner-take-all outcomes, which they remain...
...sole source of evil. He was only the leader. What about the people who empowered him and supported his regime? The proper course of action is not simply to unhorse a single person in an act of fury but to re-create the country, to give it a democratic framework. That will not be possible without an honest settlement with officials, judges and everyone else who created and ruled in Milosevic's corrupt system. How do I know? In Poland, we went through the same ordeal 10 years ago, but once again in Poland, we have a President from...
...separate the parties from the state. The nationalists see themselves as the only guarantee of survival, and they've turned their mini-states in Bosnia into party states staffed mostly by former communists and run like communist states. But that may take some rethinking of the Dayton framework. Dayton froze the situation in Bosnia, and while that may have stopped the war, its framework may also now be an obstacle to political reform...