Word: heartlands
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...political strategists outline a comprehensive strategy for the Democratic Party to reach out to the Southern “Bubbas” of America in their new book “Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must...
...decade? A few years ago, I taught a composition class at a college in Iowa. Among my students were an immigrant from Guatemala, an Indian who grew up in London, a Japanese-American out of North Carolina, a Philippine-Chinese-American, and several very blond students from the American heartland, including a white supremacist who defended her family's racism in front of the class. This extraordinary mix of students strikes me as a perfect representation of America, a land where a boy raised at the back of an Indian grocery store in London easily started a friendship with...
...initially seemed very bizarre—why would you do a musical about this bizarre antique?” Johnson says. The show itself spans a broad range of themes and time periods. “We wanted all of the characters to be the heartland of America. It’s kind of folksy, it’s definitely not all business suits or all cowboy hats,” Johnson explains. “The look of the characters adds to its very nostalgic, kind of classic American feel.” In addition to the folksy feel...
...DIED. JOHANNES RAU, 75, former German President and premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's industrial heartland; in Berlin. Rau, a Social Democrat, failed in a bid to unseat Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1987 before embarking on his five-year presidential term in 1999. No stranger to controversy, Rau suggested in a farewell speech that negativity among German leaders had driven the country toward "collective depression...
...many voters in the heartland, the Jack Abramoff congressional lobbying scandal has simply confirmed their suspicion that all the bums inside the nation's capital are on the take. But Washington's scandal du jour is just one example of the political corruption that the FBI is increasingly uncovering at all levels of government across the country. Under code names such as Tennessee Waltz, Plunder Dome, Safe Road and Lively Green, the FBI has mounted a growing number of investigations and undercover operations that have busted cops, mayors, judges, Governors--and everyone in between. Since 2002, the FBI has engineered...