Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, a political party doesn't haveto live up to its name. The German Democratic Republic, after all, was East Germany under the communists. In Mexico, the Institutional Reform Party (PRI) has been the protector of that nation's state of high corruption for the better part of a century. But it sure helps ? and this election year the Reform party has a chance to begin living up to its very purposeful name. There is perhaps an equal chance that the infant party will turn instead down the path that leads to the electoral deep dungeon where...
...Fulani, Buchanan "can play a role as a unifier, bring everybody together." Come again? Fulani herself ran for president in 1988 and 1992 on the New Alliance ticket, but this year has thrown in her lot with the Reform party in New York. She is a supporter of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and has been criticized for a statement she made saying that some blacks seem willing to "pander to Jews" (Fulani is black). Buchanan, meanwhile, is a virulent protectionist and anti-immigrationist (and ex-Nixon speechwriter) who never met a panderer he didn't like (though...
...based a so-far-successful governorship on the idea that government can be better, smarter, smaller and more accessible ? that it can be reformed. And he has the credibility that any reformer needs; at a time when globalization has made America and its citizens the richest and most powerful nation in the world, Ventura is a free-trader who will not court the protectionists for easy votes. At a time when the morality hawks are looking desperately for a Faust, Ventura is resolutely pro-choice. He also knows that in the eyes of the larger electorate, Perot and Buchanan...
...nation obsessed with forcing our parents out of their homes and into nursing homes or alternatives, when the greatest comfort and peace of mind can be had at home, at a lower cost, with in-home caregivers? One option is a government reverse mortgage to cover costs. Most seniors desire to live and die in their homes. RICHARD SUTTON Palatine...
Think Russia has a corruption problem? According to BENJAMIN GILMAN, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, widespread graft threatens to destabilize Bosnia and indefinitely postpone the departure of 6,000 U.S. peacekeepers from the troubled Balkan nation. A fact-finding team dispatched by Gilman to discover what has been happening to some of the $5.1 billion in international assistance funneled to Bosnia since 1995 has come back with sobering news: in just one of the country's 10 cantons, or states, hundreds of millions of dollars provided to the government (including about $1 million from the U.S.) have already...