Word: mainstreaming
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...Creating democratic options won't necessarily bring existing extremists back into the mainstream: It's hard to imagine al-Qaeda's Dr. Ayman Zawahiri settling for the job of Health Minister in his native Egypt. But it stands a good chance of isolating them and limiting their ability to recruit a new generation. That's why there?s remarkable agreement between liberals and neocons that democracy and the creation of institutions for peaceful political participation in the Middle East are among our best hedges against terrorism in the long run - even if they disagree fundamentally on how to pursue those...
...assassination] basically brought a huge part of the mainstream into the opposition,” Yafi said. “I was involved in a human chain from the Martyrs’ Square for about three kilometers to where Prime Minister Hariri was assassinated...
...then, to more mainstream projects. What about Steven Spielberg’s take on H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, awaiting a June 29 release, in which Robbins shares the screen with Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, and Dakota Fanning? The residents of late-Victorian Britain felt the brute force of interplanetary colonialism in Wells’ classic science fiction novel, and Robbins is the first to admit that Spielberg’s contemporary update, set in America, might have some underlying relevance to the current geopolitical scene...
...declared, “a place for those who are already empowered to play internal political games and make good connections for the future of their political careers. The result is that those who are highly involved…tend to be rich, white and mainstream.” Sounds good, right? Provocative and progressive with a dash of the self-righteous...
...reason it irked me that the IOP at least appears to be so overwhelmingly “rich, white, and mainstream” is that it seemed to me to be yet another way in which our supposedly meritocratic school helped perpetuate a rich, white, mainstream elite instead of developing a meritocratic one blind to previous privilege. After all, according to best estimates based on rampant facebooking, only six out of the 42 members of SAC are not white (and only 15 are women). And, based on admittedly unscientific observation alone, SAC is filled with polo shirts and blazers...