Word: westernness
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...does Washington believe it can set legal and moral standards for the world? In part because Americans have always felt themselves uniquely the standard-bearers of democracy and Western ideals and in part because they like the role of sole remaining superpower. "We have historically thought of American values as being universal," says Harvard University political scientist Samuel Huntington, "and ones we have the responsibility and obligation to induce other societies to accept." Or as Kantor puts it, "The U.S., as the most powerful economic and military entity on earth, needs to provide leadership. I would hope and expect...
...Dole says he trusts in the hard way, and well he might, hailing from the garden of pressed sand called western Kansas, where the weather's hard, the water's hard, and anything that comes easy probably isn't worth having. This way, the hard way, says Dole, is the only way he has ever got anything and anywhere in this life. It is how he swallowed his pride as he and his family moved into the basement of his boyhood home so that oilmen could move in above them. How he came home from World War II not alive...
Reading those numbers, Kevin Phillips, a Nixon campaign aide and architect of the Southern strategy, saw the future, and it worked. In his book The Emerging Republican Majority, he predicted an unbeatable G.O.P. coalition of Southern and Western voters united by their resentment of Northeastern power and their fear of urban blacks. "A new era has begun," he promised. And it had. As Michael Lind points out in his new book Up from Conservatism, after the 1934 congressional elections, the first of the New Deal era, the South had virtually no Republicans in Congress. Now it has more Republicans than...
Part of the reason his approval ratings exceed 80% is that Leavitt fits the evolving profile of Utah's citizenry, a conservative group joined lately by cyberhungry and outdoors-loving transplants from the West Coast. He's hip to online projects like the Western-based "virtual university," and he has defended the environment more forcefully than the Republican-controlled state legislature. Still, Leavitt is no Al Gore: he supports the state's strict antiabortion law and the recent ban on after-school clubs, imposed to deter gay-student alliances. If Dole wins, look for Leavitt to be offered a Cabinet...
...LOUISIANA DELEGATION: Best Western Seven Seas Lodge; Hotel Circle. View of freeway. Price...