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...Buchanan? During the primaries a lot of blue-collar Republicans gathered behind him because he took up their grievances against corporate America. His way of tiptoeing up to the edges, and over the edges, of racism and anti-Semitism infuriated liberals. (And they were not alone.) But it was Buchanan's protectionism and his attacks on greedy executives that really turned off the business wing of his party. For decades the G.O.P. flirted with the populist attack on elites, a venerable Democratic tactic that Richard Nixon borrowed for his own purposes. Now that Buchanan was giving that message a serious...
Abortion controversy? We got it: Citizen Ruth stars Laura Dern as a pro-choice icon who changes her mind. The I.R.A.? No problem: Some Mother's Son has flinty Helen Mirren playing the mother of a Belfast hunger striker. And American racism? Take your pick. Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi re-enacts the trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the murderer of Medgar Evers; John Singleton's Rosewood is about the attempt to dislodge an affluent black community...
...bipartisanship, Clinton could tap Pat Buchanan to head up the Commerce Department, although that would mean retooling his free-trade policy and imposing harsh tariffs on Japan, as well as accepting the high cost of building that wall all along the Mexican border. Also, Buchanan's racism might bother the rest of the staff, although since Mike Espy resigned and Pena and Cisneros are on their way out, will any minorities be around to care...
...will not, ever come to believe that idealism is a bad thing. There is nothing wrong in believing and wanting to improve the situation of those around us. Of course, I am not blind to the social realities of racism, sexism and cultural misunderstandings; if I were, I do not think that I would have ever chosen to volunteer in the first place...
...Proposition 209] denies the fact that sexism and racism exist," said Veronica Terriquez '97, the co-chair of Latinas Unidas. "The average Latina woman with a college degree earns the same salary as a white man without a college degree...