Word: insist
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...Voting, of course, does not a democracy make. It's become fashionable to insist that true democracy requires more than elections?it also demands the rule of law, honest bureaucrats, the protection of minorities and so on. (By those criteria, Indonesia still has some way to go.) But that doesn't mean that building democratic societies has to proceed at a snail's pace?a process that can be used by entrenched ?lites to hold on to power while they "ready" their nations for democracy. In a recent speech, Mark Malloch-Brown, the administrator of the U.N. Development Program, acknowledged...
...Voting, of course, does not a democracy make. It's become fashionable to insist that true democracy requires more than elections?it also demands the rule of law, honest bureaucrats, the protection of minorities and so on. (By those criteria, Indonesia still has some way to go.) But that doesn't mean that building democratic societies has to proceed at a snail's pace?a process that can be used by entrenched ?lites to hold on to power while they "ready" their nations for democracy. In a recent speech, Mark Malloch-Brown, the administrator of the U.N. Development Program, acknowledged...
...math has changed: Democrats can see their way to a net gain of two seats, which would give them a slim advantage in the Senate. "We're at the cusp of a victory in November," says Senator Jon Corzine, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. G.O.P. leaders insist that the Democrats' hope is a pipe dream. Most of the seats up for grabs are in G.O.P.-heavy states that Bush won handily in 2000. "They simply cannot blow away the reality," says Senator George Allen, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
...America was already at war with itself over the issue of slavery. Haiti, burdened by its postindependence isolation and the 100 million francs in payment it was forced to give France for official recognition--an amount estimated to be worth nearly $22 billion today, which some Haitians insist should be repaid--began its perilous slide toward turmoil and dependency, resulting in a 19-year U.S. occupation and two subsequent interventions in the past 100 years. In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson presented dire warnings about what might happen to the U.S. political system in a worst-case scenario...
Unfortunately, it’s just not that simple. Your footprints are heavily embedded in all of the paths I have walked in recent years. The closer I get to reality, the more I must explain and even insist that you?...