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Less than a year ago, Roh Moo Hyun was the Howard Dean of South Korean politics, his grass-roots presidential-election campaign generating buzz on the Internet while attracting millions of young voters yearning for an incorruptible candidate. In one of the enduring images of the race, idealistic Roh supporters took to the streets to collect donations and hand out colorful piggy banks to individual voters. The message of the fund-raising drive was obvious: Roh would answer to the people, not to the big corporations that purchase influence through lavish campaign contributions. He won the election, in part...
...oppose George Bush on national security, Dean unambiguously inveighed against the Iraq invasion and caught the Democratic Party's antiwar wave. While the others were dialing for $2,000 checks and lining up big-name political consultants, Dean seized on the Internet's potential to raise money and organize grass-roots support. (He had been running for more than a year before he hired a pollster.) And as consequential as anything else, he focused his energy outside the political establishment at a time when the top contenders--nearly all of them creatures of the Beltway--believed that big donors, party...
Hard-core tailgaters took drastic measures to get a good spot in the lot, even sleeping on the grass outside the Bowl, in their U-Hauls with their kegs or, more comfortably, in trailers...
...unusual. A friend from California, a magical child named Albert Beach, was coming to New York to visit. He said he was bringing some marijuana, which I'd never tried, and that if I was to appreciate its full efficacy I'd better practice inhaling something. Like cigarettes. The grass never did much for me, but oh, those Benson & Hedges! I can recall sitting in my Brandon Films office after lunch, my brain a-buzz on a contact cigarette high...
...Trampled grass+last night’s rain...