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...prevent a similar upset, Nader approved what was for him an entirely new brand of lobbying--an old-fashioned grass-roots campaign with a new twist. Nader has spent a decade as a photogenic political entrepreneur, using the media to his best advantage as he lambasted what he saw as the many wasteful and dangerous practices of some of the world's largest and most powerful corporations. But propped up by institutions and the national media, and supported by a vague national majority. Nader has done most of his very effective lobbying along the corridors of Columbia and has felt...
Dunn later described the painstaking work that went into fashioning the links, saying: "Except for several horse-drawn roadscrapers all the work was done by hand. The fairways were cleaned off and the natural grass left in. The rough was very rough with clothes-ripping blueberry bushes, large boulders and many small gullies. The place was dotted with Indian burial mounds and many sandtraps...
...film is supposed to leave us dewyeyed with joy when, finally free from her gods, Debby frolics barefoot on the grass. This superficial happy ending--a far cry from Green's more ambiguous closing--epitomizes the film's shallowness and belies the realism of the book's title. With its failure to provide any understanding of insanity. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ends up doing little more than exploiting the bizarre behaviour of psychosis for the thrill, with a sensationalism the novel's deeper treatment avoided...
Most of the reports were cautious, understated and well documented with figures and dates. There were, however, some missteps. The Washington Post's David Broder began discovering a major grass-roots revulsion toward Lance; trouble was, Broder documented his assertions by quoting a number of Republican state chairmen and pollsters, who had not taken any recent polls on the subject. The Post one day reported that Powell told a breakfast gathering of reporters that Lance would be asked to resign; other reporters in attendance recalled that Powell said the White House had decided not to ask for Lance...
...Harvard players began to get their footing on the wet grass, scoring chances started to open up. At the 30 minute mark, Tommy Hsiao took a pass from Lee Nelson and launched a missle off his left foot toward the upper right-hand corner of the net--only to be robbed by goalie John McElaney...