Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal, until the Boston Herald ran a picture of the Chevy with its spanking-new inspection sticker in the window and the Governor and his driver standing nearby. Headline: DUKE FAILS TO STICK TO INSPECT LAW. Before long, the crack drive-time team at one of Cape Cod's largest radio stations began repeating the story, complete with sirens in the background, advising listeners that they too could avoid tickets if only they had a Governor riding in the backseat. The "Backseat Governor" spots tapped a well of venom toward Dukakis, who recently jacked up registration and driver's-license...
...second Cultural Revolution? No, mostly because the first explosion was inspired and directed by the country's leader, Mao Zedong. "Today's protest is a genuine student movement, spontaneous, yet well disciplined," he says. "We do not feel threatened." In fact, Liu's son and daughter-in-law have gone to Tiananmen Square to show their solidarity with the protesters...
...violence up until Saturday bordered on the miraculous -- a testament to the skill of the demonstration's young organizers. "This was not an explosion from nowhere. This had been building for a long time," explains David Zweig, an assistant professor of government at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Even so, he adds, "it is remarkable how unviolent it has been...
Much, however, depends on the Beijing regime. Revolutions are usually triggered by the intractability and violence of governments, and the declaration of martial law showed that Deng Xiaoping and Li Peng were prepared to crush the protests with military force. Violence can, and often does, achieve its aim of suppression. It can also galvanize an opposition and make compromise unthinkable...
...began to consider possible explanations for why I was stopped. After all, I did have a Harvard bookbag full of constitutional law books, which must have tipped them off. And, I told myself, we were two Blacks out walking (not running, for some reason) in the vicinity of a crime committed by two Blacks...