Word: micheles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DIED. Michel Foucault, 57, opaque, paradoxical French philosopher-historian, whose concepts of normality, deviance and the exercise of social and political control profoundly influenced psychiatry and penology in many countries and whose modes of thought and post-Marxist politics strongly affected French intellectuals, especially the "new philosophers"; of cancer; in Paris. He began by examining the concept of insanity, arguing in Madness and Civilization (1961) that society uses such ideas to impose normative standards of behavior. In The Birth of the Clinic (1963), The Order of Things (1966) and his unfinished, multivolume History of Sexuality, he reasoned that "power...
...rarely invoked penalty for this infraction: enforced silence for the rest of the day's debate. The judgment was so unsettling that Republican Leader Robert Michel quickly asked Lott to make a motion that exempted O'Neill from the penalty. Lott agreed, although he later defended his actions in taking O'Neill to task. "In the House you can't impugn a member's integrity," he said. "The Speaker demeaned his position by coming down on the floor and getting involved in hand-to-hand combat." No one could recall a House Speaker ever having...
That tempestuous scene was the culmination of a televised minidrama that began last January. An abrasive cadre of Republican "young Turks," frustrated by the accommodating style of O'Neill's golfing buddy Michel, began taking over the House floor every day after legislative hours to berate the Democrats. The chamber was invariably empty during these "special orders" sessions, but like all other action on the floor, they were broadcast live by the cable network CSPAN. What set O'Neill aflame was a bit of showboating by Gingrich; during a fiery denunciation of several Democrats' views...
...Neill reacted by ordering the cameras to pan the empty chamber in order to expose the young Turks' tactics. In his pique, however, the Speaker failed to notify the Republicans of the change. For that he later apologized to Michel, but the firestorm had been ignited. Republicans labeled O'Neill's action "camscam," and took to the floor in high dudgeon. What upset the Democrats, as well as Michel, is that the Speaker, who is supposed to represent the House as a whole, had joined in a partisan shouting match. Lost in the scuffle was the laudable...
...prefers, the President said, "Without Peacekeeper, the incentive for the Soviets to return to the negotiating table is greatly reduced." But by the weekend before the vote, Speaker Tip O'Neill, an MX opponent, boasted that he had a solid majority to scuttle the missile. Republican Leader Robert Michel then made a publicized pilgrimage to the White House to deliver the hard facts...