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...lots of money in the process. The self-funded Romney's frequent invocations of Reagan are a sharp contrast to McCain's focus on national security, and Huckabee's churchy charm. All three front-runners are appealing to different strains of traditional Republican values; there's the Wal-Mart Republican (Huckabee), the establishment Republican (Romney), and the independent Republican (McCain). After Michigan, all three appear to have an equally good shot at the nomination. But for voters to have faith in the man who won Michigan, Romney can't afford to change his tune...
...become the first person in his family to attend college. In his America, hard work was rewarded and opportunity was there for those who wanted it. But things have changed; today the textile mills of the South are gone, outsourced to Asia, and replaced on the landscape by Wal-Mart Supercenters—stores that sell second-rate merchandise and treat their employees like cattle, yet remain in business anyway because so many Americans can’t afford to shop anywhere else. In too many places today, there are no good jobs and no signs of change...
When she was in middle school, Woo already knew she wanted a quality education. She won a scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy in eighth grade and attended the boarding school until her junior year, when the stress of finding her place in a wealthy world—a K-Mart brand-clad teenager bobbing in a sea of students in J-Crew and Northface—led her to drugs...
...peace and quiet, they leave no incentive for investment in the core of the city. As America has slowly “[shifted] from a nation of citizens to a nation of consumers,” it follows that corporations such as McDonald’s and Wal-mart, represented in Brouws’s photographs from all around the United States, bulldoze the area around the suburbs to a dulling conformity of drive-ins and parking lots. This analysis is arguably simplistic, but the fact remains that Brouws’s photographs testify to the uniformity of the landscape...
...Mart alone is aiming to sell at least 100 million CFLs a year