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...realistic to imagine that we might see Deliberation Day introduced on a national scale? Ackerman and Fishkin believe it is. Alongside all the democratic theory and hard political science, the authors are careful to address the practical nuts-and-bolts problems certain to bedevil any potential implementation of their idea. For example, the cost of staging a national Deliberation Day is carefully budgeted to include everything from the $150 honorariums doled out to incentivize participation, to the cost of providing free bussing for all citizens to the designated sites. Altogether, the authors estimate that pulling off a Deliberation Day with...
...California's history. "This isn't the movies," says Democratic political consultant David Axelrod. "No one is going to throw him a ray gun so he can blow up the deficit." But will a two-month campaign give anyone enough time to pin Schwarzenegger down on the issues that bedevil the state, from air quality to immigration, water rights to education? Schwarzenegger is promising detailed plans for how he will solve the state's myriad problems, but thus far his positions have been as vaporous as his witty one-liners (see following story...
...Saddam may be hoping to string out the inspection process into the middle of next year, knowing that Iraq's 132-degree summers bedevil the prospects for ground warfare. It's a gamble, of course, because it involves a regime whose power is built primarily on fear graphically demonstrating its ultimate weakness by being forced to open the gates of Saddam's palaces whenever a bunch of scientists in baseball caps demand to poke around. And, of course, there's always the danger that the inspectors will uncover evidence of weapons programs - if that happens, expect the Iraqis to dissemble...
Therefore, my entreaty to both conservatives and liberals on campus is to drop the pretense that we know the answers to the questions that bedevil society and recognize that our professors don’t entirely either. Our futures are shrouded in uncertainty. Specifically, liberal need to understand that conservatives often, though not always, have the same ultimate moral goals as (many) liberals (e.g., equality of opportunity, minimize hunger, etc.) but take different routes to those goals. Conservatives need to appreciate that sometimes, though it might be difficult to believe, liberals come to their beliefs after plenty of hard thinking...
...industry, digital radio's pluses are easily explained: clearer sound and more choice. Digitalization transforms sound into the binary codes of 1s and 0s, which can be transmitted as audio waves free from interference. The result is a CD-like broadcast unmarred by the hiss, static and drift that bedevil analog stations. And because digital uses little bandwidth, it allows for the transmission of many more channels. Niche stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word, a station that features audio books. Advertisers are keen to embrace digital radio because its increased...