Neither, however, is entitled to ride roughshod over deliberative legislative processes in a way that threatens to make highly consequential and long-duration alterations in what is, at the moment, one of the government's most indispensable functions: identifying and countering the threat posed by Islamofascist terrorists.

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"The protracted squabble in the ministry has crippled Japan's diplomatic functions, heightening criticism of the government, " the newspaper said.

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The nonprofit ICANN formed in September 1998 to sort out who would manage a set of Internet management functions currently handled by the U.S. government and its contractors.

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