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...Communists were initially more receptive to Zaccagnini's efforts-mainly because they prefer an informal accommodation with the Christian Democrats to an attempt, during the current crisis, to wield power formally. But of late matters have become more complicated. The Christian Democrats' election two weeks ago of former Premier Amintore Fanfani (an uncompromising antiCommunist) as president of the party's national council deeply angered the Communists. "We proposed our own broad 'political accord' on all major issues for the duration of this legislature," explained Giorgio Napolitano, a leading Communist, "but the Christian Democrats said...
Still, the magic persists, though democratic Kings and Queens often wield less executive power than a welfare caseworker...
...other voting board members, three of whom were company executives, were determined not to be rushed into taking action. Among the possibilities examined were some suggested by Dorsey himself or his lawyers to hold on to his job. One was the naming of a vice chairman who would wield effective power as chief executive. Another was the establishment of a troika of leaders, including Dorsey, to share power. Both suggestions were rejected...
...regions, cities, even neighborhoods. His polemics against corruption, injustice, and violence at all levels of society have been compared to Zola's work; Pasolini, like Zola in his time, saw in the "ragazzi di vita," who have neither ideals nor morals, a mirror image of the capitalist bourgeois who wield power in Italy. But Pasolini proposed no alternative to the existing power structure. Though he professed commuunism, Pasolini was no Marxist or Maoist, but a utopian, a romantic. His vision of the future society was of a "natural" society, a return to some pastoral arcadia (such...
More Japanese women than ever are working in fields that range from physics to zoology. Yet most women still wield their power in the home, following the ancient saying: "A wise falcon hides its talons...