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...into the present--the effects of this attempt on the worlds of political culture were profoundly ambivalent. It turned out to be impossible to relegate foreign ideas to neatly circumscribed compartments; and by the end of the 19th century the pressure from the world of ideas had led to strident and insistent demands for new structures of justice, new realms of freedom for aesthetic endeavor and the dissemination of information, and abandonment of autocracy for either a genuinely circumscribed constitutional monarchy or a popularly based republican form of government. Under these and other pressures, the last dynasty fell...
...unmistakable in his black turtleneck and soft tweed jacket, the former university professor had been until recently but one among many voices in the cacophonous crowd of Zajedno (Together), a coalition whose members were united only by their opposition to Milosevic. Zajedno's potpourri included everything from strident Serb nationalists whose hard-line politics are as autocratic as Milosevic's, to liberals infatuated with Western democracy. Plagued by disunity, backstabbing and factional feuds, Zajedno's concatenation of conflicting groups could barely agree on who was in charge, much less what policies to pursue. Now the huge rallies have given them...
Despite the efforts of many conservative state and national politicians, however, California is the first and only state so far to have repealed its affirmative action policies. Prop. 209 is yet another example of California's strident but not ideologically inflexible conservatism. Two years ago, Californians voted the draconian and notoriously anti-immigrant Proposition 187 into law, but this year they also approved Proposition 215; this measure legalizes the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. California's governor, Pete Wilson, has a law and order reputation but also favors gay rights. However, despite some of the Golden State's seemingly...
Kennedy, the most strident of the speakers, declared his support for the 1960's programs of Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson, policies which established the present public housing system...
...provided a clear opportunity for him to make a direct appeal to the common ground, which poll after poll shows voters prefer to the partisan divisions that many believe have infected our political system. Specifically, independents and moderate Republicans often preferred this values-based appeal to the more strident rhetoric adopted by Newt Gingrich and his colleagues during the 1995 budget showdown. Our polling also demonstrated conclusively that while voters preferred the Republican version of limited government in 1994, by 1996 they favored President Clinton's fiscally prudent values-based appeal over the Republican alternative by better than...