Word: governability
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When Bush came to office--installed by the Supreme Court after receiving fewer votes than Al Gore--I speculated that the new President would have to govern in a bipartisan manner to be successful. He chose the opposite path, and his hyper-partisanship has proved to be a travesty of governance and a comprehensive failure. I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality. They're not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine...
...first of all. There are certain sections of French society our message wasn't getting to - immigrants or minorities, civil service workers, women, the suburbs. And we had to explain our program to them better. And we had to present ourselves better as a party capable and ready to govern when the call comes...
DEFINITION pow.er.share v. To govern jointly, often with your enemies...
...Bobby Kennedy's dream - even more than John Kennedy's - is the one that has never died for liberals. Since Bobby never had the chance to govern, his image carries a purer, more transcendent hope than even that of his elder brother. And Democrats have kept trying to revive that hope: with Teddy Kennedy in 1980, Gary Hart in 1984, even Bill Bradley in 2000 - each a bold challenger of the party establishment, each of whom failed to displace the heirs (Carter, Mondale, Gore) of the same stolid establishment forces that stood in Bobby's way in 1968. Finishing Bobby...
...most ambitious collection of reforms in undergraduate education,” Bok said, “certainly in the last 100 years.” In addition to handling the curricular and teaching reforms, Bok has also overseen the completion of the Allston master plan, which will govern the University’s expansion across the Charles for the next 50 years.Christopher M. Gordon, chief operating officer of the Allston Development Group, said that he worked with Bok on design questions, and that Bok ultimately approved the master plan. “President Bok obviously brings a lot of Harvard...