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...Dornbush's experience explains the second fundamental change Obama has brought to politics: his campaign was built from the bottom up. Even fund raising, once the realm of the richest in politics, became a grassroots organizational tool. At nearly every event this year, Team Obama set up little tabletop trinket shops, known as "chum stores" because all those little Obama-branded doodads aren't only keepsakes; they are also bait. Every person who buys a button or hat is recorded as a campaign donor. But the real goal of the chum operations was building a list of workers, supporters...
...1960s-era individualism, he says. "You gave up the fun of eating potato chips, looking for the big ones, the small ones, the ones shaped liked Elvis." Lempert said it took consumers years to appreciate Pringles' uniform size, shape and color. "The Pringles can was a revolution within the realm of snack food," says Baur...
...understand the reality of imperialism. We students of the 21st century closed our books this spring having swallowed Michel Foucault’s philosophies of ethics and power, content that our comfort with social theory extends beyond “supply and demand” and into the realm of “discourse,” “alterity,” “postcolonialism,” and other rhetoric that strikes our parents’ generation as silly and our contemporaries as cutting-edge...
...Asian cultures on Harvard’s campus, it is impossible to escape the exoticism the region was subject to by the College’s press. By labeling Japan and Korea “potential trouble areas,” The Crimson pigeonholed these Asian countries into the realm of the unfamiliar and dangerous, volatile entities exiled by their vulnerability to the pull of communism. This tag validates these nations as objects of interest and simultaneously denies them their rich cultural history in favor of shoving them under the heading of potential “bad guys...
...excellence and increasing economic diversity. At this time last year, 49 percent of the incoming class qualified for financial aid, while this year the comparable figure is 59 percent. Of course, many other colleges have also made significant changes in their financial aid programs, and future competition in this realm will continue to be fierce...