Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a latent danger in the Court's decision, a danger that minority religions will be suffocated in the name of universal societal values. As Carter writes: "Without [religious] freedoms...religious communities whose values differ from the mainstream might be unable to survive.... Our self-righteous certainty that we know all the answers might lead us to decide that religions whose values are too different from ours do not deserve to survive...
...statuettes keep piling up, no doubt a boon to the electroplating industry. For viewers who think the Oscars are too elitist, there's the People's Choice Awards, chosen by a Gallup poll of moviegoers. For those who find the Oscars too mainstream, there's the Independent Spirit Awards, recognizing films made outside the studio system. The Screen Actors Guild has its own televised awards show, and so does the Blockbuster video/music chain. There are awards for sports stars (the ESPYS), for outstanding African Americans (the Essence Awards) and for well-dressed rock musicians (VH1's Fashion & Music Awards). There...
...usually has to win something, or lose by less than expected, before he can hope to insert himself into the national imagination. Forbes is not the first rich man with a Big Idea to try to enter American politics at the top; nor is this the first time the mainstream candidates have courted an electorate so eager to rebuke them. So why is he now in second place in four key primary and caucus states, surrounded by reporters wherever he goes, seeing his flat-tax gospel embraced by the other campaigns and generally making the rest of the candidates feel...
Buchanan doesn't sound like he's faking it. He says he's sorry now for all those years spent flacking for Big Business as a mainstream Republican operative. He claims his conversion came on the 1991 campaign trail when he met some poverty-stricken New Hampshirites and discovered they weren't, as he might have thought, degenerates and dope fiends but "the type of fellows I played ball with." And of course sooner or later some candidate--even one as sheltered as the Beltway insider Buchanan--had to trip over the bodies of the downsized and notice that...
...Cooper claims his letter is very much in keeping with the Constitution and traditional media practice. He argues that the First Amendment also protects publishers who choose not to disseminate materials they find offensive. Most mainstream newspapers and magazines, for example, won't run ads from racist or hate groups. The people who sell access to the Internet, he believes, should start behaving the same way. "In effect," says Cooper, "this is a recognition that the Internet has come of age. We're not looking for prior restraint or to keep these guys off the Internet. We're saying, Adopt...