Word: governance
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...molded in part by continental glaciers, which enriched the earth with a deep base of pulverized rock. "The original prairie soils are fluffy, loamy, aerated, and that contributes to amazing productivity," says John Madson, author of Where the Sky Began, a natural history of the prairie. The Rockies govern the climate, forcing the prevailing winds that blow off the Pacific to give up moisture and continue eastward too dry to nourish much other than the hardiest grasses--short in the dry shadow of the mountains, taller toward the Mississippi...
...nation had enjoyed barely 50 years of independence. America impressed me as a place where the experiment in Democracy, the social revolution that so agitated my contemporaries , was being most peaceably and generally conducted. So, in Democracy in America, I attempted to explain how a multitudinous people contrived to govern themselves and live together under terms of equality--a thing the world had never before witnessed. I ventured not only to assess the effect of the American political system on the habits and enjoyments of citizens beholden to no power excepting themselves, but also, extrapolating from my evidence, to suggest...
...struck me as self-evident that freedom of expression was the cornerstone of all democratic liberties and that censorship of the press, in particular, would soon be seen by all Americans as folly and the sure road to despotism. I now realize that my confidence was premature. Government agencies continue to threaten news organizations that publish information known to everyone, including bitter adversaries, but the American people. Certain women strive to ban, as violations of their civil rights, portrayals of members of their sex that they find insulting. People who attempt to restrict what others are allowed to read...
Cuomo had the good fortune to campaign during a recession and govern during a recovery. He inherited a projected deficit of $1.8 billion, which he eliminated in his first budget. New revenues allowed Cuomo to do what few Democratic Governors of New York have ever done: cut taxes. Cuomo boasts of having made the largest tax reduction in New York history, $3.2 billion over three years. He has overseen four straight balanced budgets and, despite the cranky, byzantine ways of Albany, they have been done on time...
...electioneer? According to President Derek Bok (The Crimson, April 15), Mrs. Bok wrote her letter on her own initiative. Is it credible that there was no consultation and assent by the University administration? What role did other Overseers play in this decision? Are there any rules that govern Overseers acitons in the elections and the role of the President...