Word: ralphness
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...stern ideals and prickly temper shortened some of his work stints: as editor of the left magazine Mother Jones (a job that lasted less than a year) and author of Moore's Weekly, a newsletter that critiqued the media and was partly financed by Ralph Nader. Maybe only a tough man could make such confrontational comedies. He has won the allegiance of one tough man, Weinstein, who says, "Michael walks to his own beat. He has to when he wakes up every day and has a new death threat. I love the guy, and I'm not saying that 'Hollywood...
...growing role of RELIGION in presidential politics was examined in a 1995 cover on the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed, now a regional chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign...
Harvard's Class Day speakers have included the likes of Mother Teresa, Walter Cronkite, Hank Aaron, Ralph Nader and Conan O'Brien. Last week the satirical British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as the faux hip-hop journalist ALI G, joined the distinguished ranks. Wearing a skullcap, matching track suit emblazoned "Professor of Erbology" and chains, Ali G addressed "da most cleverest of students in America" and their parents with a homily that, in his inimitably maladroit manner, touched on everything from sex, drugs and pornography to famous Harvard grads like "Lyndon Baines Johnson, or, as he is known...
...Ralph Nader should be lauded for his unwavering resolve to reform what he sees as a plagued and corrupt political system [May 31]. Although supporters of John Kerry have the right to assume that Nader "spoiled" the 2000 election, the state chairman of Arizona's Democratic Party is absurd when he says the 2004 election is only "about George Bush and John Kerry." To deny Nader, who is running as an independent candidate, a place on the ballot is dangerous to the electoral system. Furthermore, voters who support Nader should resist claims that a vote for Nader is a vote...
...long ago, America's Christian right was dismissed as a group of pasty-faced zealots, led by divisive televangelists like Jerry Falwell, who helped yank the Republican Party so far to the right that moderates were frightened away. But [Ralph] Reed has emerged as the movement's fresh face ... His message, emphasizing such broadly appealing themes as support for tax cuts, has helped make the Christian Coalition one of the most powerful grass-roots organizations in American politics. Its 1.6 million active supporters and $25 million annual budget ... hold a virtual veto on the Republican nominee for President, and will...