Word: politicoes
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...Virginia race, which pitted Warner against Republican Mark Earley, was the most expensive gubernatorial campaign in the state's history. Warner, a moderate businessman, raised more than $18 million for his campaign, while Earley, a longtime politico, put roughly $10 million into his attempt at the statehouse. Virginia, generally considered a solidly Republican state, has not elected a Democrat since Douglas Wilder won the vote in 1989. Observers say Warner won this year by staking out centrist positions on popular issues like gun ownership. Earley was also hurt by party infighting over budget and tax issues...
...60th anniversary of Curious George fell at a busy time for the country's No. 1 George. But other noted Georges gathered at the Children's Museum in Manhattan to read aloud. Politico GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, writer GEORGE PLIMPTON, former TV-anchor PHYLLIS GEORGE and comic GEORGE WALLACE were there, although Carlin, Foreman and Boy weren't. Politico George is used to spending time with monkeys. "People send me Curious George paraphernalia," he said. Plimpton found relief from turbulent times: "Children's literature," he said, "is not much stricken by outside things." This year, however, money to be raised from...
...Democrat Mark Green, the city?s public advocate and a lifelong politico, is currently in a statistical dead heat with newly-minted Republican Mike Bloomberg, a liberal-minded media mogul who switched parties when he realized he?d be quickly overshadowed in a crowded Democratic field. Both men have positions on many issues (education, gay rights, the environment) that are virtually indistinguishable. At least their campaign styles are different: While Bloomberg seeks to capitalize on his outsider status ("A leader, not a politician," blare his campaign ads), Green embraces his years as a local politician...
...business of rebel artists in the era of business is to figure out their focus in a period governed as much by hidden international market forces as by national political frontmen, when Michael Eisner wields as much power in their world as George W. Bush. Even on American politico folkie Ani DiFranco's latest album, Reckoning/Reveling, you see a global perspective creeping in: "I think in ancient China they kinda/figured out how the body works/but our culture is just a roughneck/teenage jerk/with a bottle of pills/and a bottle of booze/and a full round of ammunition and nothing to lose...
...there is a positive side to the abuses, it is that they are emboldening the reformers against Arafat's men. Says Khader, the West Bank politico: "They're afraid of democracy. We've succeeded in developing the concept of democracy on the street." So far, at least, Arafat has been able to keep the popular will jammed into place by the pressures of the intifadeh and by his unchallenged leadership. But as they look around, Palestinians see a society that is more fractured than ever before and further away from the goal of a free state than at any other...