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...curiosity about Chinese culture since his boyhood, and from the moment of his arrival as a 25-year-old he became an assiduous student of it. He openly despised the kind of expatriates who "seldom meet a normal Hongkonger" and instead sided with and befriended Chinese at the grass-roots level. For the next 40 years, his work and life were peopled with laborers, police constables and villagers of Hong Kong's rural New Territories region, which he explored obsessively, resided in and became a leading authority...
...that he means that for months the Giuliani campaign has been banking on a little-noticed advantage it has built among the orange groves and shuffleboard courts-a grass-roots army of over 6,000 volunteers who have been making more than a million phone calls to get Giuliani supporters to vote early. If historical trends hold, roughly one-third of the Republican votes in Florida will be cast before Election Day, either by absentee ballot or by "early voting" at polling places set up across the state...
...have the backing of most Nevada Hispanic leaders, including the largest Spanish language paper, as well as much of the state's Democratic establishment, including 27 elected officials. She also has the backing of eight national unions, six of which have locals in Nevada."We've built a strong grass roots organization and we feel confident people will show up,"said Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid, Clinton's co-chair for Nevada and Harry Reid's son. "She's been endorsed by most of the community leaders in Nevada. We're positioned well...
...other. It would be very helpful if it is. But whether or not that is going on, and whether it will happen this week, I won't know until Thursday night. It would be a great boost for us. So far the campaign has been largely energized by a grass roots, as true a grass roots as I think has ever been witnessed in this country...
...Aside from shaking up Switzerland's placid political scene, Blocher's downfall "will not have any radical impact in terms of policy or stability," Lutz says, because under the Swiss system of direct, grass-roots democracy voters can challenge any legislative decision by launching a referendum...