Word: governance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liberals and the minority New Democratic Party have turned the daily question period in the House of Commons into an opportunity to attack Mulroney. Says Liberal M.P. John Nunziata: "This government has lost the moral right to govern." Still, the Liberals, led by M.P. John Turner, have no program of their own and are struggling to find one. The Prime Minister has attempted to play down the seriousness of some charges by saying, "Everyone knows the Liberals did worse." He has also lashed out at the parliamentary press corps. "The press is chasing its tail every day . . ." Mulroney charged recently...
...admits that Mondale's question probed deeper than policy particulars. "Fritz touched a nerve when he sort of questioned who I was," says Hart from behind the desk of his rather spartan Denver law office. "What he was really saying was, 'Is this guy well-grounded enough to govern this country?' " Hart can answer the question that stymies many other candidates: Why are you running for President? But he still seems uneasy with the question that bothers few others...
...students and alumni had a chance to help define the objective that govern the community and consider needed reforms together with the faculty and administrators, the problem of latent and diluted change would dissipate. In addition, students might find less of an urge to create a private community, as through final clubs. If the generally accepted principle of equality became a community dictum, elitist organizations that categorically exclude the majority of the student community might play a less central role in the social life of undergraduates. Student groups might at least recognize that they reflect and extend from a larger...
...best interest" of the University derives directly from collective interest of the community. Students and alumni should have more than a consumer's or a beneficiary's voice in Harvard's affair and they should demand a primary role in formulating the ideals that govern it. Instead of worshipping the abstract principle of institutional grandeur and practicing institutional inertia, Harvard's administration might recognize that its legitimate authority derives from the community it serves. President...
Postwar prosperity started to change all that, as did the Supreme Court's 1954 decision to desegregate all public schools and the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Black mayors now govern Washington, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia, and there are now more than 6,400 black officeholders where there were only a handful a generation ago. Paradoxically, these limited but real successes bring a new twist to racism. "We have more hatred now," says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "because we've entered a new era, an , era of competition for jobs, attention, power. Now we are the people...