Word: governability
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...cheek to cheek with Nancy Reagan. So far, Clinton has resisted naming a Shirley Temple Black as an ambassador or an Arnold Schwarzenegger to a presidential commission. But he needs to prove that Roger Clinton got all the rock-star genes in the family and that he intends to govern more like Harry Truman than Oprah Winfrey on wheels. The most perceptive question pollsters ask is whether the respondent believes that the President cares about people like you. Unless Clinton is pursuing a 40% strategy, he might consider spending more time in Arkansas than in L.A. And in a barber...
...regardless of the choice arrived at, if students had been actively and visibly involved in the selection process, Mr. President, you would not be the target of such heavy criticism as you now bear. If you govern our University without our consultation, however, you will rightly be held responsible for the results. Gian Neffinger '93 Chair, Undergraduate Council Delegation Adams House
...name of democracy. Humiliated by the parliamentary opposition two weeks ago when it voted to strip him of much of his power, the Russian President struck back by announcing that he had signed orders opening a period of "special rule." For the next five weeks he proposed to govern by decree. No more futile attempts to compromise with the country's two legislative bodies, the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, and its parent, the Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin said he would not dissolve them -- yet. He would just ignore them. They could continue to meet and conduct legitimate legislative...
...often descends. On a personal scale, the narrator himself is both protected by a benign intuition, which saves him from a scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming manner, McEwan questions the forces that govern our lives. Can we really explain the twisted landscape of human history with the neat, scientific principles we have devised? Dare we do otherwise...
...implicit assumptions seems to govern Muhammad's logic. These assumptions relate either to his definition of "Western" or to his understanding of when Western history begins. In the cultural lexicon upon which we depend to communicate, "Western" is conceived as referring to the European/Mediterranean world. The role of Blacks in the early development of Western history was, therefore, necessarily limited. Contact with Africa remained confined to coastal regions as late as the year 1600 and de Gama did not even round the coast of Africa until 1498. In refusing this truth, perhaps Muhammad is implicitly asserting that the word "Western...