Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protection program in order to win. California's loopy "B-1 Bob" Dornan, who loves to brag about having piloted every bomber in the Air Force fleet, was in a dead heat with Loretta Sanchez in his increasingly Hispanic Southern California district. Even Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative firebrand, started sounding more tolerant about abortion, touted his ability to direct federal aid to his state after Hurricane Fran left $5 billion in damage and boasted of his success in protecting the state's tobacco and peanut farmers from Republican budget cutters...
...more unity between the Senate and the House. He will be clued in to what the House is doing and more able to demand moderation when he feels the Senate is unlikely to pass a piece of legislation." At the same time, there's a pragmatic streak behind his firebrand conseravtism. By Tuesday, Carney reports, he had sewn up the GOP vote with the support of Republican moderates. Lott's ascension will mark a trend since the '80s that saw the emergence of a new style of conservative Republicans. "This is a top-down takeover," says Carney. "And there...
...more unity between the Senate and the House. He will be clued in to what the House is doing and more able to demand moderation when he feels the Senate is unlikely to pass a piece of legislation." At the same time, there's a pragmatic streak behind his firebrand conseravtism. By Tuesday, Carney reports, he had sewn up the GOP vote with the support of Republican moderates. Lott's ascension will mark a trend since the '80s that saw the emergence of a new style of conservative Republicans. "This is a top-down takeover," says Carney. "And there...
DiFranco has been a folk firebrand, dealing with such topics as abortion, capital punishment and sexual identity on past albums. On Dilate she mostly focuses on a single subject: a traumatic romance she's been involved in for about a year. The songs are sardonic, self-flagellating and self-referential; she tears into herself for the affair and then beats herself up for singing about it. "Every pop song on the radio," she croons sarcastically, "Is suddenly speaking to me." Listening to melodramatic love songs is often a guilty pleasure; DiFranco unburdens her listeners of that guilt by taking...
...critics have always warned that Izetbegovic is a radical firebrand bent on carving out an Islamic state in the heart of Europe. But the 70-year-old President most often seems to be a sincere, naive and at times haplessly besieged politician struggling to perform a delicate tightrope act. "He finds himself in danger all the time," says Slavko Santic, vice president of the opposition group Circle 99. "He must balance between the extremist and democratic forces in his party." If he does not, it will take far more than Holbrooke's embroidery to stitch Bosnia back together again...