Word: heartlanders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...CLOONEY: I've actually had that conversation with him, just saying "Look, I'll give you whatever support you need-including staying completely away from you." Actors have done a lot of damage to candidates lately. My father ran for Congress in 2004, and it was "Hollywood vs. the Heartland!" My father was Hollywood. PITT: I'm just hungry for some honesty and leadership. And I'm following them all-on all sides. DAMON: I'm an Obama guy too. I think a lot of the problems in the world would be mitigated if he were the face...
...road to catch a glimpse of the man who has become the country's most popular figure. The mood of the crowds was virulently anti-government, as protesters demanded that Musharraf step down and shouted anti-army slogans - outbursts that in Lahore's state of Punjab, considered the heartland of Pakistan's armed forces, must have come as a shock to its generals. In response, according to eyewitnesses and privately-owned TV channels, the government jammed the transmission of private TV channels covering the event, cut off power supply to whole neighborhoods, shut down small hotels and restaurants along...
...landslide sweep to power in the 2002 elections. Whereas the secular middle class can be found almost exclusively in coastal cities like Istanbul and Izmir, the AKP, led by the former semipro soccer player and Islamist Erdogan, has its roots in the conservative Central Anatolian heartland, as well as among millions of poorer migrants from those areas. Despite secularists' warnings, a poll conducted last year by a leading Istanbul think tank found that only 8.9% of the population would like to see Turkey's legal system based on Shari'a law, down from 21% in 1999. But many chafe...
...lawn. Her father ultimately resigned his academic job in frustration over narrow-minded colleagues. "It felt as though we were being punished for crimes we hadn't realized we had committed," Chai writes in Hapa Girl, her searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland. "There were many people who wanted my father to suffer. They were going to show this 'Chinaman' his place...
...selection removes a key institutional check on his party's agenda, which is likely to increase friction with the military. The choice also represents a broader shift in political power away from the secularist elite in Turkey's coastal cities and towards the conservative Islamic heartland. Gul himself hails from Central Anatolia, the Turkish equivalent of America's Bible Belt. His party's ascendance over the past five years poses a clear challenge not only to the military, but to Turkey's old secular establishment. It's a challenge based on a democratic mandate from the electorate...