Word: governability
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...victory relaxed under a prebreakfast massage in his 13-room, Western-style house on a hill in central Tokyo, while supporters trooped in with sake, beer, and trays of tai fish for a long day of celebration. For most of his adult life, Ichiro Hatoyama has longed to govern Japan. In fact, even before he was born, his politician father intended him to be a politician, and his mother, a woman of learning and vigor who believed that a child in the womb is shaped by the mother's thoughts, carefully limited her pregnancy reading to biographies of great...
...week's end Mendès announced that he was leaving for a month's skiing and thinking, while Faure prepared to govern France by carom shot...
...years after France emerged theoretically victorious from World War II, 15 years after its fall to the Germans, France is still fallen-floundering in a moral and political morass. The record of 1940 tells not only why France was unable to win then, but why it is unable to govern itself today...
...proposed amendment provides several sensible rules to govern redistricting laws. It seeks to make all Congressional districts compact in territory, a principle which the legislature has repeatedly violated. And each district would contain almost exactly the same number of inhabitants, a needed change from the present system, where districts vary by as much as 100,000 people. Perhaps most important, no city or town, except Boston, could be divided between districts; legislative majorities could no longer win two districts by skillful splitting of enemy territory for every one lost...
...Galerie Alex Gazelles last month yielded to word-of-mouth raves last week and hustled over to smart Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré to join the crowds. Reported Le Figaro's Art Critic André Warnod: "It is amazing to see the prescience which seems to govern all these pictures, still lifes as well as landscapes." Said Les Nouvelles Litteraires: ". . . Prodigious. [The] designs show authority and the palette is astonishingly rich." Said the weekly Carrefour: "Our theorists will find it difficult to explain this phenomenon." The phenomenon was Artist Thierry Vaubourgoin, a bright-eyed, straw-haired youngster...