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They largely lack access to the most basic mechanisms that any society needs to assess such phenomena and formulate a coherent reply, even at the level of public opinion, let alone national policy -- mechanisms such as credible political parties, parliaments, civil-society groups, quality mass media, reflective research universities and independent research institutions.

Martin's point, though, is that wait times are visible symbols of what's wrong with the health-care system and must be dealt with in order to maintain political support for public medicare.

The Liberal government's main concerns in those years, writes Marchildon, had less to do with medicare itself than with keeping the provinces quiet during politically delicate times.

From this came Ottawa's decision to hand over billions to the provinces just before the 2000 federal election (with virtually no strings attached) and billions more (again with few conditions) in 2003 before Chrétien's departure from politics.

They were created in large part to accomplish what government - too often constrained by bureaucracy and political knavery - can't.

That's why, for example, New York's transit system is run by an authority: Decisions about fares can be made independent of the kind of political demands that would keep a body like the City Council from ever imposing a fare hike, no matter how necessary.

Just two months ago, for example, Hevesi moved to cancel a contract awarded by an authority for exclusive Erie Canal development rights after charging it had been "steered" to a politically connected developer in a "sham" bidding process.

And the festival's political content is pronounced.

The scrutiny will be especially intense in the state's American Indian community, where the outspoken and opinionated Republican launched a colorful and controversial political career by confronting leaders of the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s.

Janklow denied the charge, claiming it was the fallout from a tense and nasty political campaign.

But he was just against us for his own political purposes.

(Which, we admit, they're awfully good at.) One can only assume that what commended that course of action -- or should we say, inaction -- was that it was the most politic.

Political Insider is a tongue-in-cheek look at the past week in Arizona politics.

In the Sixties, she was the embodiment of purity (her voice was so pure, strong and haunting, it made everything sound like a hymn) when she spear-headed the American Folk Revival - and its radical spawn, the Protest Song - alongside Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, Peter, Paul and Mary, et al), but also of political virtue, of grim, unsmiling global right-on-ness.

But her political intelligence remains acute.

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