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...changed since then. In the '70s and '80s, beer Democrats were easy pickings for Republicans. In 1972 they detested McGovern's amnesty plan for Vietnam draft dodgers and his support for forced busing. After McGovern won the nomination, the Teamsters, longshoremen and construction-workers unions refused to back him. Something similar happened in 1988, when white working-class Democrats couldn't stomach Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty. In both years, the primaries exposed bitter ideological divisions that came back to haunt the party in November. In 1972 Democrat Henry (Scoop) Jackson, in his bid for blue-collar primary votes...
...message is made even stonger by the use of a historic photograph; the children, aged 5 in 1932, would now be white-haired grandparents of 80 years. The trees, on the other hand, would have grown, but would not have changed significantly.Another powerful piece is “Vietnam, 1967, near Duc Pho.” Claerbout selected a photograph from the Vietnam War in which a plane, approximately forty feet above the ground, has been hit by friendly fire. He then traveled to Vietnam, found the spot where the photograph was taken, and filmed the sun?...
...poked fun at McCain’s experiences in the Vietnam War (“couldn’t we pick a POW who doesn’t want to shut down Guantanamo?”) and quipped that the Arizona senator is running for President because he wants to improve his New York Times obituary. Rest assured, Ms. Coulter, that McCain will be around for a while and that your morbid desire to the contrary, fed by your frustrated ego after the rejection of your favorite conservative sweetheart Mitt Romney, is as appalling as your belief that the empty...
...truth is that though current undergraduates do not show the activist urge of our Vietnam-era counterparts, we can hardly be called apathetic; our “caring” simply takes a different form than the brand that led our predecessors to take over University Hall. Why else would we be involved in community service and social justice, take classes on human rights, study abroad to learn more about other cultures, and spend time seeking information about these abuses inside and outside of the classroom...
...1960s and early '70s, civil rights and the Vietnam War were the defining issues on college campuses. In the 1980s, it was apartheid. Today, that issue is climate change - or at least it will be, if Eban Goodstein has anything to do about it. An economics professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., Goodstein became convinced of the threat from climate change in the early 1990s. He started writing and speaking about it and eventually created the Green House Network in 1999 to train other global warming advocates - doing Al Gore's work before Gore...