Word: mainstreaming
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...Mayweather won't go down as the greatest fight ever, but say this much: it had currency. What mattered for people who love boxing, who understand its history, is that for one night in May 2007 the sport recaptured the public's imagination, finding itself again in the mainstream of American culture. It was a fight for fighting, and fighting...
...Rivera ’07 is one student who belongs to this Mates of State niche. “I’m incredibly excited and will definitely be going,” he said. “I’m not really interested in a huge, mainstream performance and it’s great that they are trying to attract these smaller, closer audiences.” —Robert J. Prior contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Aditi Banga can be reached at abanga@fas.harvard.edu...
...first round of voting, the French chose mainstream candidates whose parties could actually enact legislation in the Assemblée nationale; fringe right and left candidates garnered especially low percentages—10 candidates managed merely a combined 24 percent. Tellingly, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right candidate of the Front National who made it to the second round in 2002, received the smallest share of votes he has received in any presidential election since...
...lines approved by President George W. Bush in 2001), has instead irked both. On other matters, such as Crist's support of gay civil unions, conservatives like his 2006 primary opponent, former state chief financial officer Tom Gallagher, have blasted him for "taking every opportunity to disagree with the mainstream of the party...
...that, Crist suggests, is precisely the point--pulling the G.O.P. mainstream back to "the more inclusive roots of the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. It's important that our party grow," he says, noting that he won more of Florida's black vote (almost 20%) than any other Republican gubernatorial candidate in recent history. So far the Crist approach is working: his approval rating is at 73%. That's one more reason the presidential candidates from both parties will soon be showing up at Crist's door, where they will find a new power broker both...