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...probably follow Meretz's lead and back the prime minister. Despite Sharon's substantial lead in the polls, the election remains too close to call: Many of the smaller parties have no direct stake in an election exclusively for the post of prime minister, and even if their supporters answer pollsters' questions, they may not actually make it to the polls on election day. But after harsh police action against Israeli-Arabs protesting in support of Palestinians earlier this year, Barak will be unable to count on their votes this time around...
...Technology may open up doors, but it has no answer for some problems. China is already waist-deep in this global economy and may be about to make the final plunge, but that won't necessarily help it resolve such basic challenges as providing clean drinking water to its population a decade from now, let alone maintaining social order. And the intelligence community is under no illusion that all that China needs to stave off chaos is democracy - after all, the combination of democracy and a frog march to a market economy turned Russia into a gangster's paradise, while...
Because no one can objectively answer the question "Who is most qualified?" voters in any election must consider other factors beyond sterile qualifications. They may consider personality and affability and often, heaven forbid, give more favorable consideration to their friends...
...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...
...maintain, they argue, a strategy that denies the people their popularly elected president? (In this case, that would be Al Gore, who won November's election by about 330,000 votes but lost in the electoral count 271-267). The quick answer to that question? Habit and vested interests...