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...your report you referred to my candidacy for mayor and my statement that international travel has given me the background to govern the city. You asked, "Wonder where, exactly, she has been?" As the next mayor of Baltimore, I would have appreciated an in-depth interview with your reporter in order to answer that question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1999 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

When Harvard University and Radcliffe College merge on Oct. 1, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) will become a student government with nothing to govern...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Radcliffe Trust May Undercut Role of RUS | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

Working with leaders who govern with a palpable tyrannical manner is, obviously, not without its faults. The failed policy of appeasement has left a long shadow: 60 years ago this month Great Britain and France learned that working with Hitler and overlooking violations of international law might mean helping to ensure their own demise. Clearly, discretion must be used to know when and how negotiation will work and when it is simply too late...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: A People Abandoned | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...opponent to call him Lenin, campaigns nonstop and doesn't seem to have a paycheck to miss. The Rev. Jessica Davis, who refers to herself in the third person as either "Jessica Davis" or "the next mayor of Baltimore," says "international travel" has given her the background to govern the city. Wonder where, exactly, she has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rounding Up The Usual Suspects | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

Yeltsin gave up trying to govern years ago ?- instead, like some giddy czar in a Lewis Carroll nightmare, he simply reminds Russia of his authority every few months by rousing himself long enough to lop off the head of his government, before returning to the hospital or sanatorium. The latest victim: Sergei Stepashin, a bumbling but loyal bureaucrat who served a full three months as prime minister. Of course, with a secessionist rebellion underway in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, there may be some good reasons for getting rid of Stepashin. After all, he authored Moscow?s clumsily brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Boris Yeltsin Has His Own 'Mini-Me' | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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