Word: populist
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...Arnold Schwarzenegger has built his re-election campaign on a platform of "protecting the California dream." But this week his challenger, Democratic State Treasurer Phil Angelides, laid out his own dream theme, with a populist bent...
...involved in The Crimson for reasons I don’t yet understand.”The history and sociology concentrator campaigned as an undergraduate for Birch E. Bayh, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1976, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Huey P. Long, Jr., the radical populist who served as governor and senator from Louisiana in the 1920s and 1930s. After graduation, Lamont worked for a small weekly paper in Ludlow, Vermont, eventually becoming an editor of the paper.Lamont, who acknowledged that his has not been a traditional route to politics, said that his passion for journalism...
...history and sociology concentrator campaigned as an undergraduate for Birch E. Bayh, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1976, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Huey P. Long, Jr.—the radical populist who served as governor and senator from Lousiana in the 1920s and 1930s...
Snakes may cement Jackson's status as the multiplex's great populist--a title he has pursued for years. His early career, like those of most actors, was a series of frustrating absurdities. Jackson originated the role of Boy Willie in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson but was shunted to understudy when Charles S. Dutton became available. Jackson also spent two years as Bill Cosby's on-set stand-in for The Cosby Show. (He does a formidable Cos impression.) After Pulp Fiction made him famous in his mid-40s, Jackson settled into his current rhythm of mixing prestige...
...conjure up biblical parables about Jesus instructing his followers in humility by suggesting they go "sit in the lowest place"--or of pride going before a fall. Reed was the preternaturally boyish spear carrier for the religious right, the brash Evangelical who transformed the Christian Coalition into a populist power center, then helped usher Republicans into control of Congress and George W. Bush into the presidency. The next step was launching his own political career in his native Georgia: Reed would be elected Lieutenant Governor this November, then Governor four years hence. After that, his friends said, the White House...