Word: government
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tribal Indian women govern in the old traditional way. You are there to serve others, not for them to serve you," Haskins told the conference participants...
...truly multiracial society will undoubtedly prove much harder to govern. Even seemingly race-free conflicts will be increasingly complicated by an overlay of ethnic tension. For example, the expected showdown in the early 21st century between the rising number of retirees and the dwindling number of workers who must be taxed to pay for the elders' Social Security benefits will probably be compounded by the fact that a large majority of recipients will be white, whereas a majority of workers paying for them will be nonwhite...
...expanded, one-page Grapevine section, now running at the front of the magazine. First introduced in Nation two years ago, Grapevine offered readers an insidey look at politics in Washington and across the country. We'll still give you a behind-the-scenes look at those who govern us, but now the whole world is our stage, from Hollywood to the Pentagon, from Steinbrenner to Milken. "The purpose is to be fun and lively while still being informative," says senior editor Walter Isaacson, who will oversee the section...
...ever since. In fact, the handsome 54-year-old novelist is openly disdainful of the occupation that engages him. "Politics is intimately related to human mediocrity," Vargas Llosa observes wryly. So far, this attitude has been to his advantage in Peru, where voters seem as cynical about those who govern them...
...have great flexibility, accept criticism. Not in literature. When you write a novel, you should be very intolerant, very intractable about the goals that you have set." His critics say this stubborn streak has kept the author from building the alliances, particularly with leftist groups, that he needs to govern Peru effectively. Instead, they say, he relies on advice from a small cadre of confidants that includes his wife Patricia, 43. "He is very alone out there," says Hernando de Soto, a leading Peruvian economist and onetime friend...