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Democratic factions tend to be sedimentary. The oldest Old Democrats are blue-collar economic populists like Dick Gephardt, who also tend to be pro-military, churchgoing and socially conservative. In the 1970s they were supplanted by radical-liberal activists, refugees from the 1960s protest marches who tended to be antiwar, antipoverty, passionate about civil rights and civil liberties and more secular than the lunch-pail crowd. Bill Clinton's New Democrat movement was an information-age reaction against the two previous generations--a free-trade, business-friendly revision of traditional Democratic economics and a socially conservative reaction to the excesses...
...innovators is focusing on the long-elusive goal of making clean and sustainable power a mainstream commodity. For example, the fuel cell--which extracts electricity from the chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen--has been around for about 150 years, though its commercial deployment did not begin until the 1960s and then only as part of NASA spacecraft. Today this technology is coming down to Earth in places like Tokyo, where Japan's first hydrogen-fuel filling station opened in June; in nine European cities, from Stockholm to Porto, each operating three hydrogen-fuel-cell buses; and in Iceland, which...
...game to me. I will have these cases treated by our courts." He talks of Serbia's foreign interests lying not only in Washington and Brussels but also in Moscow, Beijing and with "our old ties" in the so-called nonaligned countries, a bloc co-founded in the 1960s by former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. Like the Radicals, Kostunica has nothing but scorn for the country's leaders, whom he accuses of "destroying the institutions of state" and subverting the rule of law. Kostunica has ruled out a coalition with the Radicals in any future government and claims...
...Dude, this is totally what we have to go for tomorrow morning!” Aaron C.M. Barth says, gesturing towards the 1960s western playing on his laptop. He and two friends are preparing to film a western short for Visual and Envirnmental Studies 155r, “Directing Actors for the Camera” in Middlesex, Mass., early Monday morning, with Barth in the cowboy role. Like his on-screen counterpart, Barth has the holsters, (toy) guns, harmonica and requisite hat. Except he’s in the Kirkland House library and wearing a tuxedo...
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