Word: populists
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...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...
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...
Long Thompson, who served three terms in the House and as Under Secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton Administration, has countered the avalanche of G.O.P. cash by going populist. She walked the 100-mile length of the district from Kokomo to South Bend shaking hands, wearing a baseball cap and sending out her message that her opponent is a wealthy ceo out of touch with the grass roots. Chocola, a political neophyte, doesn't try to hide his pinstripes. He motors between campaign stops in a red humvee and usually wears a suit and power tie. His message is that...
...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
Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva couldn't have picked a worse time to launch a presidential campaign. That was back in 1989, his first bid for Brazil's presidency, when he was still a radical, left-wing populist yammering for Brazil to default on its foreign debt even as Brazil - and the rest of Latin America - were embarking on a decade of free-market reforms and fiscal austerity. Lula still finished second in 1989, as he would in 1994 and '98; but nightmares of the region's "Lost Decade" of the 1980s - when Latin American socialism had produced inflation rates...