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...vote for, the government always gets in. That's because the Jewish State's proportional-representation democracy awards a parliamentary seat to any party able to muster a measly 1.5 percent of the popular vote, and that combined with the increasing "tribalization" of its electorate has made it an iron rule of Israeli politics that no party ever wins a simple majority. Instead, the leader of the party that wins the most seats then faces weeks of horse-trading with a plethora of small and medium-sized parties to cobble together a coalition government capable of passing legislation...
...period marked by labor unrest and terrorism. That's one reason Agnelli transferred manufacturing abroad to places like the Soviet Union, Brazil and Turkey, where labor was cheaper and the industrial scene less chaotic than at home. One of those investments, the huge Togliatti plant opened behind the iron curtain in 1970, produced more critics than money, but Agnelli saw a bigger picture: "What we like best of all ... is that a very large number of cars rolling in Russia are Fiats." Even more controversially, Agnelli also later sold almost 10% of Fiat to Libya in 1976, before eventually buying...
...green ink. Although she acknowledges that Hussein is no democrat - "If I were in his shoes, I'd rule differently." - Faisal maintains that the Iraqi dictator is probably the most impressive leader in the Arab world. "He is an old-fashioned knight," she gushes. "He has charisma and an iron will - compared with him, the other leaders of the Arab world are small pygmies. Such a man deserves to be treated with respect...
...Native Americans? If the U.S. met those long-standing obligations, we Indians would not have to depend on tribal casinos to meet our basic needs. Don't hate us Native Americans for doing what we must do to survive in a system that pushes us toward extinction. ANDREW CATT-IRON SHELL Rosebud...
...quarterback’s heroics were made myth when he served as the model for the 1922 football novel First Down Kentucky. To many, Centre College and McMillin examplified the American Dream on the grid-iron by shutting out Harvard...