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...liberalism was becoming a victim of its own success. The post-World War II economic boom flooded America's colleges with the children of a rising middle class, and it was those children, who had never experienced life on an economic knife-edge, who began to question the status quo, the tidy, orderly society F.D.R. had built. For blacks in the South, they noted, order meant racial apartheid. For many women, it meant confinement to the home. For everyone, it meant stifling conformity, a society suffocated by rules about how people should dress, pray, imbibe and love. In 1962, Students...
...package - which could easily be doubled to $100 billion - would have five components: • A green bailout for the automakers, with a quid pro quo: they would have to increase fuel-efficiency standards in their cars at least 4% per year and make major investments in new battery technology for plug-in hybrids. • A green-infrastructure fund to make existing public buildings more energy-efficient and provide homeowners with tax breaks to do the same. "This could help revive the construction industry," Hendricks says...
...charge that Tracy denies. "We're simply telling students it's okay to go at their own pace," he says. Especially if that pace is a little quicker than the status quo...
...thugs from Baltimore) to intimidate voters all over the city. The fake voters exploited the names of children, the deceased, even fictional characters. In 1869, 21-year-old Thomas Edison patented the design of a "switch-and-lever" voting machine, but he couldn't find any buyers. The status quo suited politicians just fine...
...that millions of viewers watched him live as part of a 30-minute infomercial the campaign bought on NBC, CBS, Fox, BET, MSNBC and TV One. "In six days, we can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the power of the status quo. In six days, we can come together as one nation, and one people, and once more choose our better history...