Word: populists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...Khamenei. And despite the Iranian president's defiant posture, the National Security Council has signaled its continuing interest in a negotiated settlement by announcing that an Iranian delegation will visit Moscow next week for talks on a proposed Russian compromise. But with Ahmadinejad turning the nuclear issue into a populist cause, it's far from certain that the more pragmatic heads will prevail...
...Europe" back on board to press for the right kind of deal in Iraq. Indeed, the cartoon controversy seems a sign that attitudes toward Islamic extremism are hardening in Europe. Publications in Italy, Germany, France and Norway expressed solidarity with Denmark by reprinting cartoons of the Prophet. Conservative and populist anti-immigrant political parties are on the rise throughout the Continent. "Anti-American feelings have really diminished," Senator John McCain told me last week after returning from meetings with European leaders. "The Europeans have their own problems now. And I think the situation in Iran has led them to understand...