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...ruling class wants you to vote because voting tricks you into believing you have an equal stake in the power structure. You are less likely to revolt if you feel included in determining who gets to look down Arianna Huffington's blouse at Washington parties...
...ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Neolefty's "Shadow Convention" hardly noticed, but you do look...
...disappointed by the way you trivialized the drug war as a key issue before the "shadow conventions" organized by Arianna Huffington [NATION, July 31]. Since 1980, while the number of violent offenders sent to prison has doubled, the number of drug offenders imprisoned has increased elevenfold. In 1998, 1.5 million people were arrested for drug offenses. More than half a million of those arrests were for marijuana possession. Plenty of people other than Huffington care about this issue. VINCENT SCHIRALDI, DIRECTOR Justice Policy Institute Washington...
Until recently, attracting Republicans has never been a problem for Huffington. She has been a fixture in G.O.P. circles for a decade or more. Born and reared in Greece, she attended Cambridge University, became president of the Cambridge Union debating team and wrote several well-received books before moving to the U.S. in the 1980s. She married Texas oil millionaire Michael Huffington and helped guide his political career, which ended spectacularly after one term in Congress when he spent $30 million of his own money unsuccessfully running for U.S. Senator from California in 1994. Her career flourished...
...sounds a little vague--well, that's how movements often begin. No one should underestimate Huffington's powers as a publicist for the causes she champions. Says Wallis, a veteran of radical politics: "We've waited years for someone like her." Her enthusiasms are worth taking seriously. "She doesn't so much evolve as have incarnations," says an old colleague. And the incarnations are invariably suited to the politico-sociological moment. She has an unerring sense for the next big thing. In the early 1970s, she wrote one of the first anti-feminist manifestos--The Female Woman, a counterpoint...