Word: governability
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...justice done. This is, I think, a great performance by one of the great movie minimalists. And Haggis has provided him with a perfectly matched context, recording without overt commentary the strip-joint, hooker-ridden town that exists to serve the needs of soldiers too young for thought to govern appetites, the kind of place where a convenience store clerk cheerfully works topless. Is the movie an analogy of Iraq? Not perfectly, but well enough. Does it say something about contemporary American cheesiness? Yes, to some degree. Does Hank Deerfield's righteousness survive only because he shifts his moral position...
...than two decades of almost uninterrupted socialist rule. What's more, the August 31 surveys showed that neither of the two major parties had polled over 40%, raising concern among pundits, pollsters and analysts that Sunday's winner may either have to share power with a smaller party or govern with a flimsy mandate. For the reform-minded Karamanlis, a sharp reduction in his party's parliamentary majority may hobble implementation of key economic and social reforms, including the sell-off of ailing state enterprising and revamping of the nation's moribund social security system. "In that scenario," says Anthony...
...only story in Iraq, perhaps not even the most important story. It is more about Iraq's recent past than about its future. It is almost irrelevant to the continuing political meltdown in Baghdad, the utter inability of Iraqis to figure out a way to govern themselves. It has little or nothing to do with the country's Shi'ite majority. Indeed, the U.S. military has had comparatively little interaction with Shi'ites outside Baghdad during the occupation. That task was left to the British and other coalition forces stationed in the Shi'ite heartland down south...
...Caribbean. And then, of course, there was his proposal to remove presidential term limits as well as to increase the term of office from six to seven years. That would allow Chavez to run for reelection again in 2012, although he has often declared his ambition to govern until at least...
...Stipp's brain. Guided in part by CT scans and in part by real-time readings of electrical activity that the probe encounters as it passes different neural structures, surgeons aim for the subthalamic nucleus (STN), an olive-size clump of tissue deep in the basal ganglia that helps govern motor control. For much of the morning, Stipp's right arm has been shaking violently enough to rock the table...