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Asking the people to decide only the ends to be achieved and leaving the means for achieving them to technically skilled bureaucrats offers no escape from this dilemma; for who will supervise the bureaucrats to safeguard the public interest, and who then will watch the watchers? Eventually, the people must be trusted to decide means as well as ends--and the technical and the political will be hopelessly entangled...
...demonstrate a person's intent to vote for that candidate. The voter, at the precise moment he was halfway finished punching the ballot, changed his mind and stopped. The situation is much like the classic movie scene in which the good guy faces the cornered villain and the dilemma of whether to shoot. The hero slowly pulls back the trigger to within a nano-inch of firing, hesitates--and stops. Makes great fiction, but do we really believe that happened thousands of times in Florida? DREW SUNDBERG Brussels...
Fortunately, I am not the first to face this dilemma; this is the third millennium, after all, and there are some precedents for how to proceed. An obscure manuscript recently discovered in the Vatican Library has been revealed to be a message from a clerk to his fellow students at the cathedral school of Fleury (this was before universities) containing his comments on the passage of the millennium. I have reproduced it here with my comments, so it may serve as a basis for comparison with our time...
...points Rohan R. Gulrajani '01 raises about California's energy crisis (Column, Dec. 18) are well-taken. I strongly contest, however, the idea that the unbridled free market is the answer to this dilemma for several reasons. Ignoring for a minute the fact that Americans' perception of the supply of energy is woefully out of whack with reality (and hence so is the market's), the unbridled free market's effect on the energy situation is nonetheless undesirable. True, demand might go down in response to higher prices, but precisely the wrong group would be affected: as usual, the poor...
...Befitting their belief the recount should continue, Justices Breyer and Souter seemed particularly interested in establishing a standard both parties could accept, while O'Connor sounded annoyed that the dilemma existed in the first place. "Why isn't the standard what the voter are instructed?" she demanded. "The instructions couldn't be clearer, for goodness' sake...