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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...
...hapless Mat Herben, a former party leader who now takes up the post again. "Sometimes it even provides the matches." The government's burnout hardly came as a surprise, since from its inception it had been consumed by bickering within the LPF, its second-biggest member. With a populist program grounded largely in public fascination for Fortuyn, its founder, who was murdered just nine days before elections last May, the LPF's survival was always dicey. The end came with the unseemly ministerial spat in which Heinsbroek, a flamboyant recording-industry executive who affects a chauffeured Bentley just as Fortuyn...
...them." Veltchev has the cour-age of his convictions, but some socialist-era habits die hard. He would never, he says, implement a policy just to court popular approval, but he concedes that "it would be wrong to pretend that any politician could survive with-out resorting to minor populist measures at times." How would he determine when such a measure was in order? That, says this otherwise staunch proponent of capitalist individualism, would be a matter for cabinet-level collective decision making. Q&A: Bulgarians need to change - to stop expecting the government to take care of them. TIME...
DIED. JOHN WEITZ, 79, proudly populist fashion designer; of cancer; in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Among the first to engage in licensing agreements for the production of neckties, men's cologne and socks, Weitz was also, to the puzzlement of fashionistas, a historian and an author, whose works include a biography of Hitler diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop. He was the father of filmmakers Paul and Chris Weitz, who directed About a Boy and American...
...this agitating has made Moore rich. But what is more American than a plutocrat populist? And don't expect the left's biggest star to trend centerward; this is one pacifist who will stick to his guns. So watch out, America: if you act up, this bearded bear with a camera just may shoot you. --Reported by Andrea Sachs/New York