Word: governance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afghanistan, however, is clearly anything but peripheral. By their virtual annexation of the country, the Soviets have made its fate central to their most fundamental disagreement with the U.S. At issue: What rules should govern the rivalry now that the U.S.S.R. has emerged as a true superpower, coequal with the U.S. in military might...
...want to weld together an Indochinese federation with a docile Cambodia and Laos under the leadership of Hanoi. Others believe that Viet Nam is simply Moscow's stand-in in the Southeast Asian geopolitical rivalry with Peking. But a more likely explanation is that the men who govern Viet Nam know of no other way except the exercise of military might to secure their country's safety. Says Colonel Tran Cong Man, editor in chief of Hanoi's army newspaper: "For 30 years people had one job-that was fighting...
...book, The Pulse of Politics (Norton; $14.95), Barber divides presidential elections since 1900 into three phases: conflict, conscience and conciliation. First comes a tooth-and-claw struggle: a stand-pat William McKinley vs. fiery Populist William Jennings Bryan in 1900, or Richard Nixon vs. George Mc-Govern in 1972. Then all-out conflict gives way to a rivalry of conscience, lofty moralizing in place of mere politics: Woodrow Wilson vs. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, or Jimmy Carter vs. Gerald Ford in 1976. Finally, exhausted by combat, the public seeks a conciliator: Harding in 1920, Eisenhower in 1956, and someone...
...life that will motivate him in office. It should pay more attention to how the candidate works with others, to the views he shares with other national leaders. That will give some insight as to how he will build coalitions when he is elected and how effectively he will govern-which is what elections are supposed to be about...
...Vertigo (1958), he directly, quite humorlessly, confronted his belief that injustice will be done and that nothing is what it seems to be. Psycho, in 1960, has no moral center at all, and The Birds (1963) shows the natural world itself in revolt against the laws that supposedly govern it. Even so, the public was pleased to take Hitchcock's word for what he was?a merry prankster?almost willfully ignoring the signs on film of his growing disillusionment with conventional morality and the possibilities for even just common decency in human nature...