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...Unlike Singapore, though, the U.S. today is a nation in search of a common culture, trying to be a universal society that assimilates the traditions of people from all over the world. Efforts to safeguard minority as well as individual rights have produced, as Lee charges, a gridlock in the justice system. America is not the pandemonium portrayed in the shock-addicted mass media. But its troubles stem more from the decay of family life than from any government failures. Few societies can afford to look on complacently. As travel eases and cultures intermix, the American experience is becoming...
Despite this gridlock, the Crimson gradually picked up a feel for Forneiros'funny timing, and by the fifth inning, was more than...
...long, multistate health-care blitz. The goal was to jump-start the Administration plan while Congress was out of session -- and in the process put the President back on offense after weeks of answering Whitewater charges. One group of Democratic lobbyists and public relations executives who "want action, not gridlock; problem solving, not partisan bashing" even announced the formation of the Back to Business Committee to make sure that crime and welfare reform and health care did not get drowned in Whitewater. By the end of the week there were signs that the strategy was working. A TIME/CNN poll found...
...moment Bush does not see a need to change the way the presidency is organized, to shape it more like a parliamentary system to prevent the gridlock that plagues the U.S. government. "I don't buy into this bit about how intelligence failed or the machinery didn't work," he declares. "I could make a case for a single, six-year term. But I don't feel passionately about it." He does feel deeply about "a capacity for loyalty, that you don't chicken out when somebody's in trouble and pull away for self-gain." He has a strong...
...Zhirinovsky's appeal was read much like the maverick presidential challenge mounted by Ross Perot in 1992. Zhirinovsky, too, campaigned skillfully as an outsider. He slung verbal Molotov cocktails at a system tainted by gridlock and inefficiency. And he aimed right at Russians' pocketbooks, denouncing the economic reforms that have hiked the price of metro tickets from five kopeks to 30 rubles, pushed middle-income households toward the poverty level and withheld wages from such key constituencies as the coal miners. But like the U.S. billionaire, Zhirinovsky had far more to offer in the way of firebrand bombast than coherent...