Word: governance
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...long run, we need to have a real conversation in this country about gay rights, women’s rights and whether or not we want one group’s intolerant moral code to govern the nation. We can only have this discussion if Democrats have the guts to take strong stands on these issues and bring the rest of the country to us. We need to have enough respect for rural America’s intelligence to engage them in discussion, rather than changing the subject every time “moral values” comes...
...November 2, voters firmly and resoundingly endorsed George W. Bush for a second term as President of the United States. Bush has as clear a mandate to govern as any President in the last half century. He beat his opponent by nearly four million votes. He is the first candidate in 16 years to receive a majority of the popular vote. And he is the first President since FDR to be reelected and also increase his party’s majority in both the House and the Senate. All this in a year with the highest voter turnout in history...
With the metaphorical prowess of a bio concentrator in a creative writing course, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby channeled his Eastern spirits at the 2004 Harvard College Fund Assembly: “Confucius asked, ‘How does one govern a family?’—or, by extension, a university? And his answer was this, ‘You govern a family’—or a university—‘as if you would cook a small fish; that is, very gently indeed.’ Here, I fear...
Gergen believes that the president is sincere about wanting to govern “across the aisle,” but that the clear majority in Congress would allow him to operate as if he had a mandate...
...indications are that the man who will replace Arafat as the head of Fatah, and its presidential candidate, will be Mahmoud Abbas, the White House-favored moderate who served a troubled term as Prime Minister before resigning rather than accept the neutered role allowed by Arafat. Abbas, who would govern in concert with Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, may be more inclined to compromise and make deals than Arafat has been, but Palestinian politics is more dangerously fractured than ever after the passing of a national leader who stayed in power by navigating his way between many different and conflicting trends...