Word: ruling
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...Aristotle says, democracy is the rule of the poor, we might just as well say it's the rule of underdogs. Perhaps democracy is a sustained rebellion against those who, by virtue of their virtue, have a just claim to rule. Zeal for the underdog, then, is a leveling, equalizing, smashing impulse--in short, rebelliousness...
...Monday, tobacco was a drug regulated under federal law. On Tuesday, that all stopped. The labyrinthine legal two-step between the tobacco industry and its foes continued when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the FDA does not have the right to regulate tobacco as a drug. That the high court was in a position to rule on this at all is an indicator of how convoluted the reasoning in this case has become. For 60 years, the FDA followed its self-imposed hands-off policy on tobacco because, it reasoned, cigarette makers never claimed their product provided health...
...Zemin. The investors who bolted Taiwanese equities Monday, shrinking the value of the Taipei stock market index by 2.5 percent, may have had a savvy read of the long-term implications of the election: Chen's victory defies Beijing's insistence on bringing the "rebel province" back under mainland rule in the near future - a Chinese policy document released in February set a deadline of 2007 - and that puts the onus on the Communist party leadership to up the ante...
...tell illusion which holds that they're part of the same sovereign entity - a policy with which Taiwan's anticommunist leaders for years deluded themselves that they were the mainland?s true rulers. China, for its part, has convinced itself that Taiwan will be reincorporated under mainland rule along the same lines as Hong Kong. But whereas Hong Kong's fate was decided by its British colonial rulers, Taiwan's is in the hands of an increasingly assertive electorate. "The overwhelming majority of voters are native Taiwanese who?ve always considered themselves separate from China," says TIME U.N. correspondent William...
...easier for the school not to allow coed housing because of the inevitable conflicts of throwing the proverbial wrench of gender and relationships into the housing mix. But if the school is unwilling to make the lifestyle choice for us--in the form of a curfew or parietal rules--the least it can do is let us have the choice. As a general rule, laws should conform to the reality of their application. Whenever people learn that laws don't have to be obeyed--as is the case now with drinking--the ability of administrators and law makers to regulate...