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...Electronic town halls" featuring push-button voting have always faced one major rhetorical handicap: the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. The Founders explicitly took lawmaking power out of the people's hands, opting for a representative democracy and not a direct democracy. What concerned them, especially James Madison, was the specter of popular "passions" unleashed. Their ideal was cool deliberation by elected representatives, buffered from the often shifting winds of opinion -- inside-the-Beltway deliberation. Madison insisted in the Federalist Papers on the need to "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium...
While the allies are left feeling whipsawed, the Serbs are only too . delighted to exploit the confusion. This they have achieved by doing everything to handicap the peacekeepers short of actually driving them out. On Dec. 11, Serbs announced a ban on U.N. military escorts of humanitarian convoys, thereby making it almost impossible to supply aid to Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia. They continued to block the Sarajevo airport and prevent deliveries of fuel to the U.N. mission. "The calculated attacks have never been as bad as now," said U.N. spokesman Paul Risley, "and our ability to carry out our peacekeeping...
Liss even found a fresh way to overcome his fear of flying -- a serious handicap for a peripatetic photographer. He took five flying lessons a decade ago and promptly bought a Cessna 182, which he now pilots to and from assignments...
...that Tracy's competitive nature is limited to goaltending. Aside from an being an devoted water skier and a fairly avid golfer (that he carries a 13 handicap and yet says "I stink at the game" indicates his toleration for failure), he attempts to tackle Harvard academics the same way he would a Jay Pandolfo slapshot--at full speed...
There are only two sure ways around this handicap: play on a Sunday, or memorize the variable practice schedules of the two teams...