Word: stumps
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...most civil rights and civil-liberties issues, especially support for gay rights and opposition to the Patriot Act. They are overwhelmingly secular. Indeed, they seem to have replaced religion with cybercommunity; the monthly Meetup is their church. One of the strangest but most telling passages in Dean's recent stump speeches comes when he indulges in a romantic vision of 1968--a terrible year when America seemed to be falling apart but a time he remembers fondly as a moment of misty social communion. That, he says, is the America he seeks to re-create...
...appears that General Clark is beginning to figure out the politics business. He used the flag bit at every opportunity last week, and his audience cheered each time. This is not to say that he has become Demosthenes on the stump. He wanders through his speech, taking obscure and prolix detours into blind alleys. His delivery is halting, as if he's afraid the next words out of his mouth will explode in his face (an experience he suffered on the first day of his campaign, when he said he would have voted for the Iraq-war resolution--an inconvenient...
...speech at the Council on Foreign Relations last week (Clark bombed at the same podium a few weeks earlier). But the Massachusetts Senator has been cautious to the point of rigor mortis, and he has never overcome his tactical vote in favor of the Iraq-war resolution. Kerry's stump style is sharper than it was, but the revival may have come too late. In fact, the Senator's sell-by date seems to have passed in New Hampshire. A well-known neighbor, he has been carefully vetted by that state's hyper-sophisticated electorate and found wanting. Certainly...
...physical embrace of Old Glory, is both compelling and weird. There is an over-the-top intensity to it that is a Clark signature trait. The man is so tightly wound that he seems to be an ambulatory tourniquet. But he is wildly intelligent--and intellectually adventurous. His stump discourses on economics are as sophisticated as his sense of military strategy--if often a bit too sophisticated for his audience. Asked in Nashua, N.H., last week about the trade deficit, Clark noted in the course of a dense reply, "Those of you who studied economics will remember Adam Smith...
...stars: the ITER would inject some €10 billion into the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region over its 30-year life span, generating more than €2 billion in secondary benefits and creating over 8,000 new jobs. Not surprisingly, local government has offered to stump up €450 million of the project's €4.7 billion construction costs. For European leaders lobbying in force for the wavering U.S. vote this week, there's more to the ITER than bringing power to the people. Disappearing Act Japanese electronics giant Toshiba launched printer ink that becomes invisible when...