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...line President who just squeezed past more experienced candidates to take office has seized on the nuclear issue to cement his claim to power, according to some top government advisers. He can bypass the ruling clerics by appealing to the street, framing the right to nuclear energy as a populist cause and the centerpiece of his campaign to restore revolutionary ideals--and solidify his base in the military and revolutionary apparatus. That requires a return to the 1980s atmosphere of siege, rallying Iranians by whipping up animosity toward a common enemy, the West. To a generation forged in the heat...
...uncle, father, and brother are all bullfighting legends. It will be an important fight, says Leal, because of their contrasting backgrounds. "Cayetano is the scion of toreros. Mehdi comes from nothing." However far Savalli has come, a glittering future isn't guaranteed. Savalli is still learning. "Mehdi is a populist, someone who uses his style to connect with the audience," says José Miguel Arruego, bullfighting critic for Mundotoro.com and El Mundo newspaper. "Aficionados who look for something more exquisite are less excited about him." At the Las Ventas fight, Alfredo Peña, a veterinarian from Madrid who regularly...
...extent that culture is a form of status seeking, you want to enhance your knowledge of the canon with something esoteric,” he says.It could be that the appearance of “Star Wars” on a syllabus is not as populist a gesture as it ini-tially seems. “I think part of what Harvard is doing is embracing the fact that America’s elites today need to be as conversant in ‘Star Wars’ as they are in Stravinsky,” Kaufman says.Stevens adds...
...habit found comfort in being right. It had garnered him respect. Being popular, however, was novel - and fleeting. By early 2001, he was back in familiar territory. With an election due before the end of the year, his government was losing altitude. Good Budget management had given Howard the populist means to target specific groups, such as retirees, farmers and property investors. Money can't buy you love, but it can buy you extra time...
...Good luck, fella! Shaping the present seems hard enough for the Bush Administration. The abrupt Republican skedaddle away from Bush on the Dubai ports issue was a vivid demonstration of the populist fever rising in America-a make-the-world-go-away attitude that seems likely to spill over from Dubai to the war in Iraq. The best rationale for a continuing U.S. military presence-that the troops are preventing a civil war-began to evaporate with the internecine chaos last week. Indeed, the Dubai controversy may have opened the door for the ultimate apostasy: Bush could rapidly lose Republican...