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...there to make sure people are having fun, going fast, and that the status quo is maintained,” said Kummer, a history concentrator in Currier House and a native of Edgewood...
It’s all too easy to accept the status quo and cynically conclude that the American electorate just can’t do any better. But a recent book by Yale professor Bruce Ackerman and Stanford professor James Fishkin repudiates what conservatives like to call the soft bigotry of low expectations and proposes a radically innovative solution—a new national holiday they call Deliberation Day (which also happens to be the title of their book). Held two weeks before the presidential election, Deliberation Day would bring Americans together at thousands of sites across the country...
...would have left them in Israeli hands - perhaps, but only on the basis of a comprehensive agreement reached with the Palestinian leadership, and for which Israel ceded equivalent land from within its 1967 borders. Instead, Bush signed off simply on an expansion of Israeli territory with no quid-pro-quo, making it increasingly difficult to envisage the U.S. resuming the role of an even-handed broker...
Perhaps the most disappointing and dangerous aspect of the status quo is that voters might actually form their opinions about the candidates from the substance-less drivel Americans got a taste of Thursday. Until the presidential debates improve significantly, all we can hope is that voters manage to inform themselves despite a dearth of valuable political discourse...
...sector deficit by adopting a package of revenue-producing and cost-cutting measures. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared that we are in the midst of a fiscal crisis. In spite of those dire conditions, our lawmakers wouldn't dream of cutting their congressional pork-barrel funds. President Arroyo, quo vadis? Joel R. Hinlo Las Pi?as City, the Philippines...