Word: powers
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...Governor is a weak position," said Bush, propping his boots on a chair. "Only a weak person makes it a weak position." In fact, the Texas state constitution of 1876 made it weak in order to prevent Reconstruction-era carpetbaggers from wielding too much influence. "The Governor has no power," says Texas house speaker Pete Laney, "except what the legislature gives him or he takes with the force of his own personality." A 1997 study by the University of North Carolina ranked the powers of the office 49th out of the 50 governorships--which makes Texas "a perfectly good training...
...only one piece of the puzzle, and control over the legislative and executive branches doesn't carry quite the same weight in Iran as it might in a Western democracy. Conservatives still hold the judiciary, security services and the military, which means they will still have much political power. But at the very least it looks as though Khatami will soon have a few more allies in his push to engage with the West...
What would you pay to party with Sharon Stone at Spago? Or sit with Bill Clinton as his party names a successor? The bidding begins at $100,000 for premier perks at August's Democratic convention in Los Angeles, marketed as a mosh pit of star power - show biz and political. House and Senate campaign committees have already emptied so many deep pockets for VIP packages that party chairman Ed Rendell is scrambling to control what bennies are left...
...least one foreign power is shedding no tears over the faltering Middle East peace process. Last fall, administration sources tell TIME, Iran called leaders of the terrorist groups Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to Tehran and urged them to coordinate their attacks against Israel in the hope of derailing then promising peace overtures. "They were pulling together their terrorist friends to try to destroy the process," says an administration official...
...intransigence, first minister Trimble assured his party that he would resign from the cabinet rather than participate in a government threatened by an armed IRA. The British government wisely resumed direct rule in order to prevent Trimble's resignation, which would have destroyed the legitimacy of the power-sharing government. An IRA statement issued just hours before the British reclaimed control, in which the IRA proposed conditions to put arms "beyond use," was too little, too late...