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...usual ?- think Joan of Arc meets "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." The quintessential White Knight is the "Man on the White Horse," who quits a successful military career (or professional sports or show business, in less compelling versions) for politics. The White Knight?s secret is to always appear unlike "the rest of them," forced by patriotic duty to enter politics and save the nation from itself. Even functionaries who?ve served most of their adult lives in the political establishment are prone to reinvent themselves as folksy outsiders when candidacy calls. Think Liddy Dole...
...those not blessed with the charisma of the Crowd-Pleaser or the Healer can work a different seam of political frustration ?- the perceived need for new thinking to break traditional ideological molds. Voters know the old models aren?t working, so a candidate such as Bill Bradley who can appear to be a deep thinker unburdened by partisan baggage has a kind of White Knight appeal to the more serious voter. The Thinker is the cerebral voter?s Healer...
Stewart, who was flown first-class to Los Angeles, put up in a hotel suite and paid to appear, was prepared to talk about campus conservatism and the "disconnect between older and younger feminists." However, after events in Congress that day, the topics of the show ere changed to gun control and displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms--two issues on which Stewart does not consider herself particularly conservative...
Monday came. Rain threatened, yet the black population of Montgomery stayed off the buses, either walking or catching one of the black cabs stopping at every municipal bus stop for 10[cents] per customer--standard bus fare. Meanwhile, Parks was scheduled to appear in court. As she made her way through the throngs at the courthouse, a demure figure in a long-sleeved black dress with white collar and cuffs, a trim black velvet hat, gray coat and white gloves, a girl in the crowd caught sight of her and cried out, "Oh, she's so sweet. They've messed...
...University will today announce a gift of $18 million for the creation of a new center at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) dedicated to the study of human rights. The donation, the biggest ever by a KSG graduate, is one of a number of recent large gifts that appear to be clinching the overall success of the University's $2.1 billion capital campaign in its final six months...