Word: governance
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...somewhere to meet. Each House has a different policy toward student organizations; some allow only their own students to reserve common rooms, and some impose strict time limits or caveats on their “tenants.” Good, accessible rooms are scarce, and the House policies that govern them are inconsistent and generally not conducive to the flourishing of student life at the College...
...build a better future for themselves and their children. The entire world owes this to them for allowing Hussein's brutal regime to terrorize them for so long. Let's stop arguing about who was right and DO what's right. That means we stay until Iraq elects a government of their own, and has the means to govern democratically and fairly. Vivian Wilborne Alexandria...
...Arroyo's vow to eschew campaigning in order to govern better clearly backfired. Restive members of the military led a mini-coup attempt against her in July, and husband Miguel was embroiled in a financial scandal. She announced her latest decision at a Saturday rally, saying: "I will offer myself as the leader with the experience and vision." Surveys suggest that might be a triumph of hope over experience. A public opinion poll for the ABS-CBN network shows Arroyo has the support of only 16%, behind two other potential candidates. But Arroyo is banking on further acts of divine...
...national budget to the regions. The national élites don't know this yet. They don't know what decentralization means. In our country, 99% of the élite are Parisian. This is the élite that writes books about decline. But the future belongs to those who govern hands on. People who represent a city, a region, a territory are the ones who will matter most in the future...
...time Teller died in Palo Alto, Calif., last week, at 95, he had few friends in the scientific community. Yet he defended to the end his early backing of the bomb. "What was at stake," he told TIME in 2001, "was the real possibility that the Nazis would govern the world or, a few years later, that the Soviets would." --By Michael D. Lemonick...