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...economic summit in Lyons, France, last week, Secretary of State Warren Christopher dismissed the idea that the monarchy was threatened. "This is a solid and stable government," he insisted. "Saudi Arabia's stability," says another senior official, "is always a concern, but the fact that this group resorted to terror, not a popular demonstration," indicates it is small and weak. Comparisons to Iran under the Shah, this official says, are mistaken. "There aren't large-scale demonstrations, a regime losing its will to govern or a vocal charismatic leader in exile...
...illustrates the distrust and hatred infecting a region traumatized by Rwanda's and Burundi's civil wars. Neither the Tutsi minority, victims of genocide in 1994, nor the Hutu majority, disfranchised in both their former homelands, has been willing to negotiate. Both feel they have an ancestral right to govern and are intent on pursuing that goal by any means. Ironically, the Hutu quest for a homeland in Zaire conforms to the most radical solution yet proposed to solve the crisis: redrawing the borders so that Hutu and Tutsi can live apart in their own countries. But talks that would...
Judges--not all of whom have the wisdom of Solomon--should apply general, unvarying rules to every case, Scalia says. And the Constitution, he maintains, consists of just such rules. Where others see highly abstract terms, intentionally written to evolve with the nation they're meant to govern, Scalia--who describes himself as a textualist and originalist--sees a text of fixed and narrow meaning: in the Bill of Rights, "liberty" cannot comprise the privacy and personal autonomy to choose to have an abortion or to engage in homosexual relations because it did not in 1791. The 14th Amendment...
...truth, Israelis themselves don't agree where their country should go, and they proved it twice over in the divided, fragmented Knesset they elected to govern with Netanyahu. They gave no clear-cut mandate to any leaders, vesting large parliamentary powers in small parties whose priorities sometimes dovetail and sometimes contradict one another as well as the major parties with which they will align. So what will happen when narrow interests intersect with global diplomacy, when domestic divisions come into confrontation with international demands, when campaign promises clash? Instability, paralysis, even folly...
...think of no one better qualified to explore the complex interaction between those who govern, those who record and explain what government does and the broader citizenry," Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. told the Gazette...