Word: hanson
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Boran then singled to send Phillips home and put Princeton on the board. First baseman Andrew Hanson then flied out to left field, batting in Princeton's second run as Watterson tagged up to score...
...first game of the afternoon, the Crimson held a 2-0 lead until the top of the sixth inning when Princeton senior Andrew Hanson sent a two-run home run over the right field fence...
...should one conclude that all of Hanson's backers are racists. In fact, issues other than Asians and Aborigines have been more important to Hanson's supporters. Rural Australia has been a victim of globalization and market forces. Agricultural prices have been depressed by the absurdities of world farm trade, while transport costs have been increasing. Meanwhile, small towns and farming districts have been hurt as market forces have deprived them of services from banks to buses. A large minority of Australians, especially in those rugged rural communities that are so much a part of Australia's self-image...
Race apart, some of Hanson's ideas are in line with the views of many immigrants, even those from Asia. Everywhere, the self-reliant shopkeeper and independent professional class distrusts both big government and big business. They resent high taxes to support what they see as youths enjoying beach life on the dole, assorted liberal and minority causes or foreign governments that expect aid and then criticize Australia. Hanson remains on the fringe of Australian politics, but some of the grievances she feeds on cannot be ignored...
...debated in recent years. But the way Australia has embraced dramatic change in its racial composition over the past three decades is remarkable and admirable. It need make no apology now to its neighbors, let alone feel ashamed that an open and democratic process sometimes lifts people such as Hanson...