Word: hanson
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...granted. In recent years, however, there's been a surge of racially tinged nationalism, particularly among the young and coalescing around the Australian flag, which has become the symbol of a new tribe of über-patriots up and down the land. In 1997, anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson draped herself in an Australian flag for one of the country's most notorious campaign photos - a testament to her "Australianness," and specifically her white Australianness. In December 2005, during the infamous Cronulla Beach race riots, thousands of youths draped in flags rampaged against nonwhites; just a few weeks later...
...That hot afternoon at Newport showed a far different Australia: not a rainbow mosaic, but the monochromatic world of the John Howard generation. These white youths had grown up during the decade of the former Prime Minister's conservative administration - they had witnessed the tacit acceptance of Hanson and her divisive politics, and had been caught up in the panicky xenophobia that swept the nation in response not only to the arrival of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, but also to the growing visibility and affluence of Australia's nonwhite communities. All this went through my mind...
...brief ceremony was conducted by Judge Robert Hanson, whose 2007 ruling that the state's same-sex marriage ban treated gay and lesbian couples unequally under the law, landed the case in front of the Iowa Supreme Court. (Hanson's decision was in response to a lawsuit by six gay and lesbian couples denied marriages.) The teenagers each carried a calla lily. The couple shed a few tears and shared a laugh when the judge asked if they wanted to be referred to as "spouses" or "partners." (They went with "spouses.") An impromptu celebratory lunch followed at a brew...
...James Iha’s talent is the sheer awfulness of “Zeitgeist,” the 2007 album Smashing Pumpkins made without him. Bassist Adam Schlesinger and drummer Bun E. Carlos have similarly impressive resumes with Fountains of Wayne and Cheap Trick, respectively; singer Taylor Hanson is the only one whose career does not invite the same kind of respect, and even his presence adds interest, if only for the strangeness of the interaction between his background in teen pop and the backgrounds of his new bandmates.There is no doubt, then, that Tinted Windows makes...
...because I think America should become nonpartisan but because being a partisan nation has and will continue to make us the greatest nation on the planet. At the end of the day, we need to realize that the only thing we are entitled to is a chance. Ryan Hanson, RHINELANDER...