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...easy to picture Paul Wellstone's life as a Hollywood movie: scrappy unknown idealist, married to his high school sweetheart, overcomes solid incumbent to win a seat in the Senate. There he storms, and eventually charms, Washington with his rabble-rousing advocacy for the downtrodden. Before he was killed in a plane crash just days before the November election, the Minnesotan son of Russian-Jewish immigrants was a voice for laborers, the poor and the mentally ill, emphatically embracing the long-out-of-fashion label "liberal." In October, Wellstone was one of 23 Senators to vote against the resolution...
...leading Millennium Democratic Party as the candidate to succeed Kim, is committed to engagement. A self-taught lawyer who never attended university, Roh acquired his liberal credentials by defending students and workers on strike who ran foul of the country's draconian national securities law. A card-carrying idealist, he once suggested that U.S. troops be ejected from Korean soil...
Closer is not about closeness, and it does not foster intimacy. Patrick Marber’s 1999 play revolves around Alice (Michelle A. Chaney ’05), a stripper with a sordid past; her boyfriend Dan (Charles E. Worthington ’06), a charming idealist; Anna (Jordan R. Berkow ’03), a hardened introvert, and her husband Larry (George F. Broadwater ’04), a self-defeating altruist. The four Londoners throughout the play attempt to unravel the mess resulting from their complicated partner swapping...
...things will happen.’” And for that, you couldn’t help but appreciate his dedication, perseverance, and yes, spunk too—even if you’re on the other side of the aisle. Pragmatist Republicans derided him as an anachronistic idealist, but they certainly had to respect the unpredictability of a vote that came not from calculation but from conscience...
...People say to me, ‘It’ll never work, you’re an idealist,’” she said. “But it’s happened...Ghandi...Mandela...These people were viewed as total idealists...