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...parliamentary system of government for the Philippines [Aug. 15-22]. Ramos means to have the administration overhauled in barely a year, but all the average Filipino knows about the parliamentary system is that instead of a President, a Prime Minister presides over government. The parliamentary system is ideal for a highly informed and involved electorate, but it carries the risk that a privileged few will prey on voter ignorance and build fiefdoms that will lead to crippling partisan backbiting. Let's build grassroots involvement before we undertake a change so hasty and bewildering. Suzanne Credo Caloocan, the Philippines...
...pedals. It weighs only 29 lbs. and can fold in less than a minute to a manageable size (3 ft. by 3 ft. by 1 ft.). The market for parachutists' cycles being small, Montague's sales languished until the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001. U.S. forces found the bikes ideal for moving quietly and without using scarce fuel. Word spread throughout the world's tightly knit military community; Montague has sold several thousand bikes to the military and other government agencies as well as to a number of foreign armies. Civilians shouldn't despair: they too can buy the camouflage...
McCambridge recognized this concern. “I think both the HCC and the UC recognize that the process of the summer allocation is not ideal and the hope is that this will be changed,” McCambridge wrote in an e-mail. “We had more substantive debate about this allocation than we ever had about a concert allocation in the past, although obviously and admittedly different from a full council meeting...
...industry on its feet yet avoid the commodity trap that dooms many farmers to subsistence living in a world where coffee is abundant. The solution was to go upmarket and try to make Rwanda more famous for fabulous coffee than for murder. Rwanda has the ideal climate for growing quality beans, and its coffee has "notes of fruit and pecan," says David Griswold, president of Sustainable Harvest, a coffee importer. "It has a taste you can't find anywhere else in the world." Getting that unique taste to market required a new approach. So Clay - with Texas A&M professor...
...Justice. Any chance Bush might resign and John Roberts become President? Nils J. Mikkelsen Plano, Texas, U.S. Atomic Anxiety Re your report on the anniversaryof the bombing of Hiroshima [Aug. 1]: Washington is continually concerned about the possession of nuclear arms by countries that do not have ideal political relationships with the U.S. Its argument that certain nations cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons is ironic, since the U.S. is the only country to date that has deliberately used atomic bombs against civilians. Iran and North Korea do not scare me. The U.S. does. Christina M. Gebbia Valencia, Spain...