Word: mainstreamers
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...terror whose stability is essential if that war is to be prosecuted with any success-is at an inflection point. An increasingly powerful opposition to Musharraf's rule has coalesced around the still-rumbling issue of the Chief Justice's suspension. It includes not just the activists of mainstream political parties such as former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party but also religious conservatives tired of being made into the scapegoats for the country's problems and progressive liberals alarmed by the increasingly dictatorial tendencies of the Musharraf regime. This opposition remains disunited, but it seems...
...most rebellious thing of all may be to suggest that white-collar workers can be complex, sympathetic, even noble. If this idea hasn't broken through in mainstream pop, there's a market for it on the Internet, that brackish borderland between work and play. Jonathan Coulton went online to release Code Monkey, his Rick Springfield--esque single about a computer programmer who endures the taunts of a dim-witted manager because the programmer is in love with the receptionist. "It's about having an escape fantasy but being unable to act on it," Coulton, a programmer himself, says...
...activity: Age 10, walking up to couples at family parties with a camera and asking them to show that they love each other. Sexiest physical trait: My pectoral muscles. I get compliments on them all the time. Best part about Harvard: Cambridge locals who think their political views are mainstream. Worst part about Harvard: My freshman stupidity in thinking 9 a.m. classes were totally cool. Describe yourself in 3 words: optimistic, spontaneous, salsa. In 15 minutes you are: Finding it hilarious that I am being scoped by FM. In 15 years you are: Scoped by the New York Times...
...Other than demonstrating absolute animus toward a certain group of individuals, nothing else can be expressed by that loaded term. And indeed, as an associate editor for The Harvard Salient, I have seen this so-called journal of conservative repute devolve into a state where it no longer expounds mainstream conservative thinking, but instead represents the ideas shared by only a small fringe minority that manages to convince no one and gains the ire of students of all ideological stripes. Most of all, The Salient has become known as the talking head of the conservative movement at Harvard, providing...
...Once the two ?extremes? dominated the mainstream, the only way to an agreement was to get them to strike the deal. Now that they have, the very fact that Paisley and McGuinness have been so tough with each other in the past means that that only marginal elements reject the new deal...