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...such sentiments come naturally. He decries the "economic violence" imposed on workers and small farmers by what he considers a corporate plutocracy. Right- wing populism reflects cultural alienation, the sense that liberal elitists have forced their social views on a more traditional majority. Although Pat Robertson's campaign ads brag about his well-established roots ("descendant of two U.S. Presidents"), his success comes from tapping resentments that fed other conservative populist campaigns, including Reagan...
Students have gained a lot of intangibles from Harvard's stellar investment performance. We can brag about attending the nation's richest school. We can marvel that Harvard's 100-strong team of in-house investors rivals the lineups of top Wall Street firms, or at least we could marvel until recently...
...Lions tied the Elis, 3-3. The New York media finally had a college football team it could brag about. I finally had a team to be proud of. While my other friends talked about Penn St. and Michigan, I warned them about Columbia sneaking away with the national championship. I was just...
...first displays of rock talent occur, fittingly, in a redneck bar and an American Legion Hall. Ritchie also misses no opportunity to brag of his ignorance of Spanish. He only learns his parents' tongue so that he can rip off a Mexican folksong, jazz it up with a rock beat, and make millions...
...legend -- like Oct. 29, 1986, when a single midafternoon accident on the San Diego Freeway spread gridlock along connecting freeways and surface streets from downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, trapping tens of thousands of motorists for eight full hours. (Survivors of such mythic urban struggles brag about them like good ole boys...