Word: localism
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Gehrke said many local clergymen felt Harvard had become a place for “unruly, lazy, immoral young men,” a description which elicited cheers and whistles from the crowd...
...spent many of my formative years in Livermore, dealing with a “High School Musical” obsession, witnessing an iguana invade the local pool, and getting to know some of my best friends. Losing the warm temperatures of California was definitely threatening, but even more so was losing the connections I had built there...
Real time: 1:17 p.m. I’m eating lunch in the 20th-floor break room of the insurance company where I worked over January. “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” is on the TV in the background—or maybe the local news if more people are paying attention—and I’m savoring my peanut butter sandwich and the next 43 minutes away from my cubicle...
Days before the election, Google ads aided the final push. "If you were in Massachusetts, pretty much all day every day you would see a Scott Brown ad," says Google spokesman Galen Panger. Those ads also listed regional offices, says Willington, who bet that showing local locations would make it more enticing for people to come out and help...
...Just as all politics is local (to a degree), all diplomacy is domestic (to a large extent). China's dramatic growth may have increased its ability to be less deferential toward the U.S. But when officials loudly proclaim that foreign leaders should steer clear of the Dalai Lama, lash out against Clinton's "information imperialism" or stoke popular indignation about Taiwan, their motivation is largely a desire to play the nationalism card as effectively as possible at home, and it is as much a sign of insecurity as it is one of bravado. They see a value in deflecting criticism...