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Local meetings like the one in Bayville will occur for two months, but already the sentiment is clear. Says Russell Verney, U.W.S.A.'s new executive director: ``There is a great deal of energy out there behind a new party.'' It will take all that energy and more to overcome the many legal and procedural obstacles thrown up by states, but Perot is yearning for a new crusade...
This constant canvassing of public sentiment, one of two basic kinds of hyperdemocracy, is a straightforward outgrowth of information technology. The second basic kind -- the one more specifically linked to gridlock and to the budget deficit -- is a bit more subtle and more pernicious. And like the first one, it ultimately gets back to Madison. In addition to his dread of mass "passions," Madison had a second nightmare about "pure democracy": it "can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction...
...have talked to a number of the masters recently," he said. "They are not of a uniform opinion, but it is the sentiment that randomization would be an improvement...
Although its constitutionality has not yet been determined, Proposition 187 has already publicly, subtly and insidiously instilled fear in thousands of Californians. It reinforces the position of the political right by capitalizing on anti-immigrant sentiment in California and the United States. Proposition 187 not only dehumanizes all undocumented people, but it also requires our (those of us who are documented) complicit participation in that dehumanization. We are forced to claim our legal status at the expense of those of us who are "illegal." Because legal status is the requisite for humanness, to be "illegal" is to be subhuman. Therefore...
...time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was omnipresent death, not omnipresent divorce, that threatened childhood's serenity. Can a movie that faithfully reflects this life -- at once harder and more innocent than ours -- and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in our times...