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Many of Jackson's supporters would be delighted to see him run for mayor for this reason. But the people most excited about the prospect of Mayor Jackson are Democrats who want to get rid of Jackson...
...deterred from their nefarious doings by what might be considered by the self-deceived as special circumstances. His iron cross, first class and all, did not save my father from arrest. The fact that my school had close links with France did not prevent it from getting rid of its Jewish students...
During the crisis, Menem remained virtually out of sight. The key question is whether he will stick to this latest plan, since he has failed to honor many other austerity pledges. He had promised to rid the swollen Argentine government of scores of money-losing businesses and to make the country's bloated public sector more efficient, presumably by trimming its size through layoffs or attrition. But Menem, a Peronist whose political base is Argentina's powerful labor movement, has not had the stomach to set the stage for a confrontation with the country's blue-collar workers by carrying...
...Rumanian was driven out by his own people, the Panamanian by an outside army. The Rumanian ran and was caught; the Panamanian found sanctuary in the Vatican nunciature in Panama City and may yet escape punishment. What the two episodes had in common was the simple fact that they rid the world of two dictators...
Gorbachev has been badgering and cajoling ordinary citizens to take charge of their own futures in their jobs and in political organizations. He told Moscow editors in September 1988 that he wanted to "rid public opinion of such a harmful complex as faith in the 'good Czar,' the all-powerful center, the notion that someone can bring about order and organize perestroika from on high." His revamping of the legislative organs of the government offered just such an opportunity to assault the old conveyor-belt way of doing things...