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...third-party presidential bid of Alabama Governor George Wallace that year awoke the G.O.P. to a powerful new theme: conservative populism. From the time of William Jennings Bryan, the Democrats had been the defenders of the little folks against the power of money that had its natural home in the Republican Party. Wallace proposed instead a world in which waitresses and factory workers were oppressed by ivy-educated policy wonks and limousine liberals, an elite who crafted busing plans while their own kids went to private schools. Between them, Nixon and Wallace took 57% of the vote...
...something special. Tonight, same thing." When Johnson crossed the finish line, a full 5 m ahead of silver medalist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia, the timer read 19.32 sec. People who knew the significance of the number blinked in disbelief. Johnson had broken his own world record of 19.66 by more than a third of a second, skipping right over the .50s and .40s. Oh, yes--he had also just become the first man in Olympic history to win both the 200 and the 400. What are we bid for the finish line of Lane 3? What...
...such moments, one could recall that the Olympics at heart are just a festival of youth, in which college-age dreamers come to live in dorms, meet new friends and learn about the world. And, in doing so, they teach us about the four other Olympic qualities that the fairy-tale Olympian mythically has to conquer: excellence (in the heroic third-straight gold of 4-ft. 11-in. Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship...
...rest of the world and theoretically, if we're lucky, this could be the last test blast in the world." It's a tantalizingly realistic hope. China has voiced reservations about the treaty's strict inspection language, but Beijing may well decide it's not worth risking the integrity of the carefully constructed document over the issue. Kroon notes that the current treaty was written during two years of sometimes tense negotiations, and has been carefully balanced to be acceptable to almost every party. Only India, which demands a commitment to disarmament from the world's other nuclear powers, finds...
...rest of the world and theoretically, if we're lucky, this could be the last test blast in the world." It's a tantalizingly realistic hope. China has voiced reservations about the treaty's strict inspection language, but Beijing may well decide it's not worth risking the integrity of the carefully constructed document over the issue. Kroon notes that the current treaty was written during two years of sometimes tense negotiations, and has been carefully balanced to be acceptable to almost every party. Only India, which demands a commitment to disarmament from the world's other nuclear powers, finds...