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- From: akbloom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Keith Bloom)
- Subject: Re: This was not my lamest moment... (longish)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.004125.29080@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 00:41:25 GMT
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- dolan@XENON.BERKELEY.EDU (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
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- >Blame a country with the forms of a democratic government, but without
- >the educated voters to make it work. Or, "every country has the
- >government it most richly deserves", yet again.
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- I know another country meeting that description, which is a lot closer
- to home than the Philippines. As a matter of fact, it *is* home.
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-
- Keith
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- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they
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