Between 1873, when the law promulgating the unification went into effect, and the communist takeover after World War II, Budapest enjoyed self-government.
Certain communities lived under their own laws; the Jews, for example, enjoyed self-administration through the Council of the Four Lands.
The Kurds have enjoyed self-rule in northern Iraq for more than 10 years, thanks to United States and British protection.
Kurdistan, where most of Iraq's 5 million Kurds live in an oasis of stability flanked by sectarian strife, has enjoyed self-rule for more than two decades, but its leaders now apparently sense an opportunity to move toward full statehood.
The only Turkish person in the town was the sultan's representative and no Turks were allowed to settle there, as the local Bulgarians enjoyed self-government to a certain degree and were administered by an elected council of eminent Bulgarian residents (knezove).
In architecture, as in teaching and talking, he came to enjoy self-contradiction, paradox and provocation.
"But that is also the area where tribes like the Bodos and the Rabhas want to enjoy self-rule in their exclusive homelands.
The danger is in identifying so much with your inner critic that you enjoy self-deprecation more than your work itself.
What has brought them all here is a passion for food, the desire to create something original, tasty and fun, to enjoy self-governance in the workplace, to be free to roll.
In addition, few are disgruntled enough to desire unlawful independence, which would largely be cosmetic anyway, since the Flemish enjoy self-determination already and largely call the shots in Belgium.
What America and the international community can do is to state frankly what everyone knows -- a lasting peace will involve two states for two peoples: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people, and the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people, each state enjoying self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.
