Word: blocs
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...commentary about the women's vote, women have never been a bloc that could be specifically targeted like tobacco growers or whale watchers. In a close race a group that large has to be sliced into identifiable targets, so that both sides can pick the most promising women to woo--old or young, married or single, the populists, the small-business owners, the social conservatives, the libertarians, the waitress moms...
...Sunni Arabs already confronting the prospect that Iraqi democracy will transform them from a ruling elite into a 15-20 percent minority, the effect of excluding whole Sunni towns from the vote will likely strengthen the hand of Sunni forces calling for a boycott. If the Sunnis as a bloc stay out of the election, that's a massive victory for the insurgency - and one that could sustain it for years to come. Sunni abstinence also dims prospects for a new Iraqi government winning wider Arab support. Iraq's Arab neighbors have urged the U.S. to do more to give...
...Harvard Film Archive (HFA) preserves and exhibits much of this heritage. It was also an important part of the liberation of Eastern Bloc cultural works and venue for their display. It is still a place where important films with little commercial potential but immense cultural importance are regularly screened. (We also screen plenty of highly commercial films in an effort to examine their appeal...
...year. Brandt, who left Germany for Norway in 1933 and helped resistance leaders in the fruitless attempts to overthrow Hitler, gave a human face to a national long tainted by Nazism. Calling for ?a fatherland of love and justice? and pursuing the doctrine of detente with the Soviet bloc - Ostpolitik - Brandt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Three years later he was brought down, as other leaders have been, by a spy scandal and a sex scandal. (Oddly, he didn?t fabricate a war on a weak and unthreatening country. That tactic doesn?t get you impeached...
...Beyond it being a civic obligation and how our society works, you can’t complain if you didn’t partake in the voting process,” program assistant Aaron H. Teeter said, noting that the youth vote constitutes a “major voting bloc...