Word: governing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City: "We don't want to dominate the Arabs because the Arabs don't want to be dominated . . . And believe me, it is so difficult to govern the Jewish people, why should we try and govern somebody else, anyway...
...happened both incomprehensible and irrelevant gave way to light. Judge Robert Bork found that intelligence is not enough in a democracy. The Constitution is not better for being played with like a Rubik's cube. Its power lies in its simplicity, its acknowledgement of the people's right to govern themselves...
Even among those charged with executing the antidrug measures, however, the string of government seizures can seem excessive and unfair, especially when they involve owners who may have had no idea that drugs were on board. "Say my kids go out and one of their friends leaves a roach in the ashtray," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that...
Consensus is no way to govern when it comes to questions on which people fundamentally disagree. Final clubs present just such an issue. Turnout at Council elections has been pathetically low recently; 40 percent of the student body in the last election. Next year, I suspect, it will reach its lowest point ever. When the organization insists upon not endorsing a suit but funding it nonetheless or when it demands an open meeting with the Corporation but accepts a closed meeting in the end, we are left with very little to vote upon come the next election...
...vote for Chirac because "we cannot pay the price of changing policy every two years, and . . . vote every six months." One of Chirac's attractions remains his past two years in office. The Premier already has a majority in the 577-seat National Assembly that he can use to govern if elected. On the other hand, Mitterrand, if re-elected, would have to fashion his own parliamentary majority...