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...leftist parties and the hunger for change that holds both right and left in its thrall. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in the July 6 election that will choose the country's leader for the next six years, is certain to prevail. But the P.R.I.'s 59-year monopoly of political power is being challenged as never before, by Cardenas and also by the right-wing National Action Party (P.A.N.), led by Manuel Clouthier. Says Political Scientist Jorge Castaneda: "No matter what form the democracy of this country will take, the next...
...world of unrelenting human degradation: the bestiality of the jailers, the dog-eat-dog struggle among the prisoners, the treachery of the informers. Each account evokes the stench, the rattle of fetters, the heart-stopping cold, the killing hard labor. Still, each author used different stratagems to survive, to prevail as a human being and, ultimately, to bear witness...
...Cross-examination is an effective means of ensuring the truth will prevail before a jury. It's a precious constitutional right," the judge said...
...experts on the final clubs because we go to Harvard." Theoharis says she thinks activism has gained adherents by turning inward because "it's on an immediate level." And she remains confident that despite the problems faced by college activists, in the end their causes will prevail...
...least a possibility that while democracy should be the rule in the public arena, it need not be the operating principle of private institutions and relations. There are of course many realms of life in which democratic norms and forms do not prevail. Businesses and families, to name two, are not necessarily best run by democratic principles. At some point, hierarachy and authority must be relied upon when it comes time to make a decision. More important is the possibility that undemocratic private institutions are necessary for democracy to flourish in the public world of politics...