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There is a misapprehension that the Dean phenomenon was created by the Internet. It was created by Dean's mouth--and by the fury of many Democrats at what they perceive to be a radical Republican Administration. Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, "I've been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more." I asked her why. She said, "Grover Norquist," referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President's tax cuts. "He said, 'Bipartisanship is date rape.' Well, I don't like being raped...
...kinds of milestones, a movie has to have something special going for it. For Bayside Shakedown, it was its tongue-in-cheek take on crime fighters caught in a web of bureaucratic and cultural red tape that struck a chord with Japanese and made the movie an instant social phenomenon. After its release, police academies across the nation reported an increase in applications; some tourists arriving in Tokyo to this day are disappointed to discover that the film's mythical Wangan Police Station doesn't exist. "People collected Bayside-related goods," recalls Kawasaki City housewife Yoshimi Yamakawa. "It was like...
...There is a misapprehension that the Dean phenomenon was created by the Internet. It was created by Dean's mouth-and by the fury of many Democrats at what they perceive to be a radical Republican Administration. Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, "I've been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more." I asked her why. She said, "Grover Norquist," referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President's tax cuts. "He said, ?Bipartisanship is date rape.' Well, I don't like being raped...
After brushing up against the persecution of religious activists in the former Soviet Union throughout his life, Okhotin has been subjected since March to the very phenomenon he watched happen to his father, agitated against with Pitts and studied...
...handed authoritarianism when its perpetrators are targeting U.S. enemies. There'll be no complaints, for example, about Malawi's decision last week to ignore its own courts in order to expedite the extradition of five al-Qaeda suspects to the U.S. And good governance has been an exceedingly rare phenomenon in nations that subsist primarily on exporting...