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...conservative Republican with a populist campaign, Adametz is for limited government, lower taxes, returning control of education to the states and restoring the traditional American family. He is a former printer, which helps explain his colorful campaign literature: "Three things that can always be found in my refrigerator...chocolate milk, carrots and barbecue sauce." Them's fightin' words...
...Chinese protesters intent on reaching the disputed specks. Last week the Chinese got their first martyr--a Hong Kong activist who drowned after leaping overboard to symbolically claim the waters for China. Beijing, which had encouraged the confrontation to tweak Tokyo, now worries about being swept up by the populist fervor...
...though semisatirical rabble-rouser of the much-maligned love-it-or-leave-it Silent Majority of Americans who wished, against their mounting disquiet, to believe in their government's war. The struggle defined itself in cultural conflict. Alabama's Governor George Wallace had gone national as an angry outsider-populist and blue-collar backlasher. Agnew became a kind of insider Establishment populist, attacking "elites," meaning the media and intellectuals emerging as the liberal-minded new class of the information age. With the help of White House speechwriters Pat Buchanan and William Safire, Agnew developed a distinctive, jeering speech style that...
...called the space where we worked the "U", partially because it was the largest single industry in the state, partially because, as a land-grant institution, it was grounded in a populist tradition (it was for "U" and everyone, the football stadium was in the shape of a "U", the instruction was crafted to appeal to any and everyone, just for "U"). In the years I taught there, classes sometimes enrolled 200 students. Financial conditions did not allow teaching assistants to help grade papers. Everything was done catch-as-catch-can, on a thumb and limb, but with an incredible...
...environmentalist movement needs to be more populist, we need to tie environmental issues to the fate of working people," he said. "And we also need to be more spiritual and ethical...