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There are many benign dictators who could make America an abstractly "happier" place--and do so on a time scale our legislature couldn't begin to imagine. One cannot look around the world and guess which countries are "free" simply from their recent policy choices...
...Ritual participation of the people in government is the single distinguishing factor of democracy. The social, fiscal and environmental policies of the U.S. could be radically improved on a standard scale by benign dictatorship; if we continue to tolerate the system as is, it must be out of faith in process as much as in achievement...
...down its ratings - tape delays, too many up-close-and- personals, results being reported by an increasingly fast media (online and off) - will still be there (in the case of online media, tenfold) when NBC returns to Athens in 2004. The halcyon days when results were padlocked by a benign media dictatorship are over, thankfully. NBC's real problem is believing that its ratings have nothing to do with the quality of its broadcasts. If it wants to relight its ratings torch in 2004, here are a few suggestions...
Some of my concerns are rather benign. The idea of the omnipresent cameras and mikes, something that the NBA flirted with briefly this past year, is a dumb idea. The XFL's decision makers seem to think that the problem with pro sports all this time has been that it doesn't bear a close enough resemblance to CBS' Big Brother...
...idealistic corner of the computer world, there is a breed of benign engineers called open-source software programmers. They believe in sharing their work rather than selling it. Yet last month when one of these programmers, Miguel de Icaza, 27, announced the creation of the Gnome Foundation to bring open-source software to the masses, he was flanked by such giant corporate partners as Sun Microsystems, Compaq and IBM. That makes de Icaza a type that's rarer still: part software hippie handing flowers to the corporate police, part digital-age powerhouse...