Word: heartlanders
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...this age of mass-marketed commodity entertainment, the history of American music is constellated with real characters, do-it-yourselfers who couldn't stop asking "What if..." and who had the drive - and thick enough skins - to follow through on their hunches. From the basements and garages of the heartland came the electric guitar, the electric bass, the five-string banjo, the multitrack tape recorder and the pedal steel guitar. Perhaps it's our penchant for excess that leads us to make it louder, faster, different - especially different - and not everyone may see the results as signs of progress...
...small irony that even as Silicon Valley suffers, much of the heartland still basks in the good times the New Economy has made possible. Throughout the Midwest, consumers have been shrugging off the downturn in stocks and taking out home-equity loans to finance remodeling, or a new car or a European vacation. "There's not a chance this boom is over," says Diane Swonk, chief economist for Bank One in Chicago. "Consumer attitudes are high in the face of high oil prices, stock-market volatility and even election rhetoric. Most Americans live on Main Street, not in Silicon Valley...
Every revolution has its moment of combustion. Yugoslavia's came on an autumn Wednesday in the persons of three elderly men on a tractor. Hundreds of Slobodan Milosevic's dreaded special police had swept down on the hard-bitten diggers at the Kolubara coal mine in Serbia's heartland who had first initiated popular resistance by refusing to work. Attempting to force out the 7,000 striking miners intent on crippling the country's electric grid, security troops surrounded the complex and blockaded a key bridge with police buses. But the workers stood fast, broadcast for help on radios...
Emboldened, people power caught fire, and the police just let it burn. Few troops were willing to stand in the way when the toughs from Cacak, another heartland town that had taken an almost martial stance, mounted their "people's tanks"--excavators and bulldozers--and headed for Belgrade on Thursday. Led by their charismatic mayor, Velimir Ilic, the men of Cacak were coming to enforce Kostunica's demand that the President concede defeat by 3 p.m. The challenger had called on the entire populace to fill up the capital as a sign of its determination...
...political columnist David Nyhan came to speak at the Institute of Politics. He appraised the chances of each contender on the Democratic side and chose Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry as the most likely vice presidential pick. Nyhan said that Lieberman would not be picked because the nation's heartland was not yet ready for an Orthodox Jew on the ticket...