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...internecine fights involved in establishing the party in every state and on every ballot. The first and harshest test will come in California, where Perot supporters must collect 890,000 signatures, or enroll 89,000 party members, by Oct. 24. It was that deadline--and restlessness in the California chapter of Perot's existing political network, United We Stand America--that forced Perot to move last week. And move he did. Perot's new party flew paid organizers into California, bought full-page ads in newspapers and set up petition tables in shopping malls. Perot arrived on Friday...
...vehicle for Powell or another independent, but only if Perot convincingly removes himself once the party is up and running so the candidate does not look like his puppy. And that has never been Perot's style. Says Dennis Weyl, former chairman of the United We Stand chapter in Colorado: "Despite the rhetoric, it's still Perot's agenda. It has nothing to do with the members." Says Anne Saucier, secretary of the group's Ohio chapter: "He woke us up and made us a force, and then he became scared...
Across the country in recent months, United We Stand has suffered widespread unhappiness with its founder. Some chapter leaders complain that when Perot disagrees with them, he cuts their funding and installs handpicked operatives. The state chairman from California, Skip House, predicts, "They won't get the people out working that they did in '92. Many are disillusioned...
...chapter on “Rooted Cosmopolitanism,” Appiah tries to make philosophical sense out of the fact that most people are averse to female circumcision but not to its male counterpart. Appiah uses this apparent contradiction to ask the larger question of how the liberal cosmopolitanism he advocates “might justify tolerance for illiberal practices that are grounded in local traditions...
...affiliate of the national Hillel organization, the Harvard chapter has used its $2.4 million annual budget to operate 400 programs each year involving Jewish education, activism, religious reflection, and advocacy for the state of Israel...