Word: mainstreaming
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...mainstream media continues to lament legendary New York City punk club CBGB’s overdue demise, as if anyone even peripherally involved with underground music still cares about a venue that stopped booking punk shows...
...don’t come out disillusioned.” Nonetheless, Gerson described the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as the most frustrating period in his career in the White House. “We attempted to give benefits to a number of people who literally had no connection to mainstream America; they were living in a different country,” Gerson said. “The response from both Democrats and Republicans was underwhelming.” He added that the problem of abject poverty is one the American political system is not geared to fix. IOP fellow Christina...
Indeed, members of SLAM recognize that they are not necessarily part of the mainstream...
...full-face covering known as the niqab, the comments of Blair and Straw seem perfectly reasonable to me. Neither of them asked Muslim women to abandon their belief in hijab, or the custom of veiling, altogether. Both zeroed in on the niqab, a minority practice considered extreme by even mainstream Muslim standards. (The niqab tradition is confined to certain regions of the Muslim world, parts of the Gulf, and Pakistan; a similar covering is known as the burqa in Afghanistan.) I come from a Muslim family and have spent years living in various Muslim communities around the Middle East. Every...
...matches and made 146 total appearances, coming off the bench only nine times. In her career, she has been to the Women’s World Cup twice and played for the U.S. Olympic Soccer team in 2000 and 2004.In 1999, U.S. women’s soccer reached the mainstream, as the squad won the World Cup—on American soil. But Markgraf was a staple on the team even before this, coming off her All-American career at Notre Dame, but her stellar play solidified her spot as a team leader. Her return was significant for the national...