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...such thing as a pure political product. The two existing political parties are amalgams of passion and sanity, traditional liberalism and conservatism. Those who win the presidency create harmonic majorities by plausibly balancing these strains. A pure populist has not been elected since Andrew Jackson. And since Franklin Roosevelt, all the elitists have taken pains to demonstrate their common-man credentials. For most of the past century, the Friedmanite establishment tended to be moderate Republican, and economic populists like Dobbs found a home in the Democratic Party...
...pent-up volume," says Scott Davis, founder of ViaGen, a biotech company based in Austin, Texas, that charges $15,000 to clone a cow and $4,000 for a pig. "A clone has to be bred for you to get back your investment." --By Margot Roosevelt...
...powerful interests angry." Blagojevich, who defeated then state attorney general Jim Ryan in 2002, has seen his approval rating drop sharply, from 52% to 35% in a recent poll. "This is a fight that should have been avoided at all costs," says Paul Green, director of policy studies at Roosevelt University. "It can't be a positive for him." Or for the next family picnic. -By David E.Thigpen
...when he married), he grew up watching his father beat his mother and then took his own anger onto the streets, getting into fights. He was kicked out of one school, dropped out of another, and probably would never have graduated if not for Herman Katz, a teacher at Roosevelt High, who plucked him from a remedial English class and propelled him on to graduate from UCLA. "It didn't take a genius to figure out there was a lot going on in that head of his. He stood out," says Katz...
...There's a rumor that Dick Cheney may run for President in 2008. If he wins, that would make him the first three-term President since Roosevelt...