Again, a czar?
IN 19th-century Russia, Czar Nicolas I commissioned an official national anthem known as “God Save the Czar.”
In 21st-century Washington, the anthem would be more suitably titled “God Help the Czar.”
It’s not good to be the czar, not here, not now. The czars dwell in bureaucratic jumble, not palatial privilege. Indeed, you know it has gotten messy, the problem so immense — and the managers so desperate — that the only solution lies with something as fundamentally undemocratic as the appointment of a czar.
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In 21st-century Washington, the anthem would be more suitably titled “God Help the Czar.”
It’s not good to be the czar, not here, not now. The czars dwell in bureaucratic jumble, not palatial privilege. Indeed, you know it has gotten messy, the problem so immense — and the managers so desperate — that the only solution lies with something as fundamentally undemocratic as the appointment of a czar.