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...Beijing or pro-business. They usually join forces with Legco members who aren't directly elected by the people but instead represent industry groups, such as bankers or landowners. That combine is pro-status quo, pro-Tung and pro-Beijing. In the other bubble are the so-called democrats, populist politicians who aren't necessarily anti-China but desire things that Beijing deplores, such as more democracy in Hong Kong and even on the mainland. Given the arcane way Legco votes are tallied, the democrats are dwarfed by Tung's allies; and in the past, just about every major issue...
...know from the first Legally Blonde movie, there's something in her closet besides 200 pairs of shoes. In that case, it was a dream of self-realization: Harvard Law School and all that. In the sequel (subtitled Red White & Blonde), she's offering a much broader liberal and populist agenda to the "land of the free gift with purchase." Searching for the birth mom of the abandoned Bruiser, she discovers that Mrs. Bruiser is being used in experiments by a cosmetics conglomerate. Devoted though she is to lip gloss, this is too much for Elle. Off she goes...
...voters. The key to a Democratic victory in 2004 is to target the half of the electorate that doesn't vote, at least in part because these citizens see no credible alternative in the current 1 1/2-party system. What the Dems need is a genuine fire-breathing, rabble-rousing populist. Anyone can be "strong on defense," but winning back disaffected progressive voters requires a candidate with the guts to forcefully denounce Bush and his gang. DOUG ABBOTT Silver City...
This policy supplemented his populist approach to politics well, winning him three terms on the Cambridge School Committee and a seat on the city council from...
...terminated with Household International, a firm HSBC recently acquired. But at least HSBC has outperformed the market. It's the idea of "rewards for failure" that has really fueled the fat-cat fuss in Britain. Just as in the U.S., where revelations of corporate piggery last year triggered a populist backlash, Britain's shareholders are asking why they should subsidize the opposite of success. Says Tory M.P. Archie Norman, former chairman of the ASDA supermarket chain, "When time after time, directors walk off with wheelbarrowloads of cash after presiding over declining share prices while shareholders get nothing and employees...