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When Clinton took office, the Democratic Party already had a centrist wing, and it looked like Martin Lancaster, Congressman from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Lancaster spent his childhood on a tobacco farm and his adulthood in the naval reserves. In so doing, he embodied the two economic pillars of many rural districts throughout the South: agriculture and the military. In Congress he lovingly cared for eastern Carolina's Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune. And he defended subsidies for tobacco, peanuts and hogs (one of the district's biggest exporters was called Carolina Oink Express...
...Worldish society in which the pre-planned, genetically made-to-order elite get the honors and opportunities, and the natural births are relegated to the grunt work. Ethan Hawke plays a "natural" who borrows the identity of a brahmin to fulfill his lifelong dream of leading a mission to outer space. Although the film suffers from unevenness, sketchy characters and muted acting, Niccol's striking images make it all easy to overlook...
Even though all these pets do is take, take, take, at least Tamagotchi is a "pet from outer space," while Sea Monkeys are pets that come in the mail. As the fight ensues, Tamagotchi beeps menacingly, while the Sea Monkeys hatch and tempt hungry gold fish. Neither species is capable of love or anger or true defecation, therefore the battle is a draw...
...Worldish society in which the preplanned, genetically made-to-order elite get the honors and opportunities, and the natural births are relegated to the grunt work. Ethan Hawke plays a "natural" who borrows the identity of a brahmin to fulfill his lifelong dream of leading a mission to outer space. Although the film suffers from unevenness, sketchy characters and muted acting, Niccol's striking images make it all easy to overlook...
...Giuliani's liberal predecessor David Dinkins couldn't use broken windows to evade the fiscal-austerity dilemma, because it required taking on minority-group leaders and civil libertarians who viewed these arrests as the harassment of African-American and Latino men. Giuliani did, and thereby won the hearts of outer-borough Democrats already hostile to Messinger's brand of upper-middle-class Manhattan liberalism. By making New Yorkers feel safer, he transformed the city's politics...