Word: marination
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...want a balanced budget," Howard Dean said, and the crowd at the Larkspur Ferry Terminal roared. "Imagine that!" Dean continued with a smile. "Here we are in Marin County, the last bastion of liberalism, hooting and hollering for a balanced budget." But the crowd wasn't really cheering for balanced books; it was hooting and hollering for Dean himself, who could come out foursquare for a healthy balanced diet and his supporters would find it deliriously rebellious. By recent Dean standards, the Larkspur assemblage - several hundred people - was meager. He's been greeted by 3,000 in Austin, Texas...
...case, Dean has unlocked a fairly new and vibrant Democratic constituency that transcends his left-wing peacenik stereotype. It is young, middle class, white and wired. Standing on the aft deck of the ferry from San Francisco to Marin County, the Governor was approached by a stream of computer geeks: a woman named Lisa Rein, who has a weblog; a man named Eric Predoehli, who has a website; as well as several people from among the 35,000 - astonishing if true - who had joined the Dean affinity group on Meetup.com. Dean seemed nonplussed by it all. "I have no idea...
According to Brian M. Goldsmith ’05, U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin refused to drink the ice water IOP volunteers put on her podium. Adverse to water that has any hint of chill, Marin would not speak until someone tracked down bottled, lukewarm water for her. Warren Beatty needed just the right microphone, according to Forum Director Bill White. And, White says, noted feminist activist Angela Davis barely stifled her anger until a bag of her favorite brand of tea was produced. In short, says IOP Forum Committee member Jonathan Chavez ’04, speakers sometimes...
Anna Sangermano knows from firsthand experience what such programs can do. Now 40, she says she began drinking and doing drugs at 13, dropped out of her Marin County, Calif., high school in the 11th grade and began living on the streets at 20. She smoked so much methamphetamine that her teeth rotted. The county took away two of her sons and placed them in foster care. Finally, in 1999 Sangermano entered drug treatment and then the home of Joyce and George Parker. During her nine months with the Parkers, she got her driver's license, her GED and dentures...
...simply no basis for the claim that Florida’s Talented 20 Program solved the affirmative action issue. In fact, this report indicates the percent plan was virtually irrelevant,” Orfield wrote in the foreword of the report, which was authored by research associates Patricia Marin and Edgar...