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...Gurr has taken quick gulps from the rarefied, somewhat bloodless atmosphere of backroom politics. Here, he says, he tries to help carry forward the left's great struggle: "To translate what can often sound high falutin' into things that are concrete and connected to people's lives." His activism is driven by a faith in justice. Gurr records his encounters with the solid union men of the picket lines and with old-fashioned Christians who inspire him because of "their lack of embarrassment about wanting to do good in the world." He's scathing about those from the mall churches...
...militias. Never mind that the Prime Minister was himself a Shi'ite partisan until his nomination--whereupon he sought to reinvent himself as a nonsectarian leader--and that his party had stronger ties to Tehran than to Washington. An ornery figure, al-Maliki is a backroom politician plainly ill at ease in public; few Iraqis had even heard of him, and few are convinced that his rancorous all-party government can last the year, much less its full four-year term...
...laughs madly, or the crotchety old hunchback laboring over fuming beakers—that are strange and abnormal. The dehumanization of scientists is not simply a Western phenomenon. But in contrast to the West, where the scientist is politely told to take a seat in the backroom where no one will notice his odd mannerisms and strangeness, Eastern societies have dehumanized the scientist in a completely opposite way: They have deified him. In many Asian countries, scientists are national heroes. Take Chen Jin, a top physicist, who was feted by top Chinese leaders for developing the Hanxin computer chip...
...response to questions about Stroger's condition and prospects for recovery, the family has refused to comment, apart from saying they'll make an announcement in July. But press reports on Wednesday indicated that the backroom jockeying has been fast and furious during the President's convalesence...
...Webb is a political amateur, and party pros consider him "undisciplined." That means he hates fund raising and isn't very comfortable with the backroom coddling of special interests that is a dismally essential part of the job. He entered the race late and precipitately. His answers are sketchy on some domestic-policy issues; Miller has a Washington insider's grasp of issues like education and tax policy, as the Washington Post pointed out in an endorsement editorial last week. Indeed, Webb may be in serious trouble in the primary. A minuscule turnout is expected, less than...