How long the Greens will be able to exercise so much power will be determined to a large extent on how they wield it now.
The first thing to note is that the manner in which he will exercise power formally is of no importance.
Frail though he is, Fidel Castro will continue to exercise a veto power over the pace and direction of change in Cuba.
Last week, the Clinton Administration became embroiled in controversy over its world view: Does the Administration believe, as Under Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff stated "on background" in a 25 May meeting with reporters, that the United States can no longer afford to exercise global power and therefore will generally decline to do so?
Under the Clinton Administration, Angellian globaloney is being translated into institutions, treaties and international obligations that will greatly complicate future U.S. governments' efforts to exercise sovereign power.(2) This may, in fact, prove to be one of Mr. Clinton's most regrettable legacies in the foreign and defense policy arena.
Instead, if President Bush agrees to some deal with Vladimir Putin that allows the latter to exercise what would amount to a continuing veto power over U.S. missile defenses, he will simply assure that the deployment of American anti- missile systems occurs after we need them -- probably after some place we care about, perhaps in this country, perhaps overseas, has been destroyed by a missile attack.
The Crummey power idea giving the beneficiary the right to withdraw money which you hope they will never exercise can be added to various other trusts too.
If they fail to exercise that power vigorously with respect to the nomination of Harold Koh to be the top State Department lawyer, they will not only have been derelict.
Whatever the motivation, many ordinary Chinese are hoping that the result will be an improvement in the quality of their lives -- and greater protection from the arbitrary exercise of state power.
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