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Sitting in the grass in front of Lamont, backpack beside her, Heller prepares for a familiar ritual. For the last three years, she alternated visits to her then-fiance and now-husband Mark Alfano, a senior at Princeton. She’s got a seven-hour journey from the Square to her husband’s front door ahead of her, but she’s used...
Will you market this in the grass-roots way that Gibson did The Passion? In [the African-American] community, we've always marketed like that--through churches and beauty shops...
...Latham also sees himself as a messiah. A person who joined the Labor Party on the same night as Latham in 1979 recalls the teenager boasting how he would be prime minister one day. Latham has spent his entire adult life making his way up from the grass roots: working as an aide to the retired Whitlam, then in the office of New South Wales Labor Opposition leader Bob Carr (now Premier), as a Liverpool City councillor and, since 1994, as the local M.P. for Werriwa. He's diligent, serious and bookish - and a seeker of political tutors. His Labor...
...believes, and resents a political system that is wasteful and ineffective. Labor has pledged to improve the machinery of government through leadership: "It will require a government dedicated to advancing the public interest and committed to high standards of fairness, integrity, accountability and responsibility." He also advocates more "grass-roots democracy." Part of this comes from his town hall?style meetings, where issues are raised and solutions often put forward. In government, Labor has promised to hold Cabinet meetings in community settings so ministers and their advisers stay in touch with the electorate. When in doubt, Latham says...
...rainy and chilled day when I arrived last May, black-faced baby lambs leaped about on multitoned green grass. Fluorescent yellow coconut-scented gorse growing next to electric colored bluebells signaled that, stormy weather aside, this was indeed spring. The next morning the skies cleared and the weather turned summery. Rachel Whyte, a co-proprietor of and the chef at the Glenmachrie Country Guest House, fed me some surprisingly mild-tasting smoked kippers, which, had it not been morning, would have paired well with a Bowmore 17year-old. Bowmore, on the north part of the island...