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...strategy. Unfortunately, his bits of incisive analysis are only needles in a haystack of hate.Morris begins from the assumption that Hillary Clinton will seek, and receive, the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, pointing to her strength as a fundraiser and her ability to appeal to the traditional Democratic base: minority voters, liberals, and women. And women—especially single women—Morris notes with some alarm, are the key to winning American elections. Their move to the Republican Party in the 2004 election, he believes, gave Bush the critical edge over Kerry. Their traditional allegiance...
...speech by Antonio R. Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles and the first Latino to lead the nation’s second-largest city in over a century. Calling himself a “proud progressive,” Villaraigosa said America’s cities form the base of the current progressive political movement. “Survey the political landscapes, and you see that the one place where progressive leaders hold power is in our cities,” he said. “It’s in the cities where you see progressive innovation flourishing today...
...Tuesday night meetings, Harvard is a school, not a caregiver. “This is an academic institution—there’s only so much that an academic institution can be expected to do,” he says. “We have to base our decision on the infraction...
...largely gloss over the enormous suffering that the disease has caused in the U.S. and elsewhere. People die from AIDS in “Rent,” but their deaths are so achingly beautiful and full of meaning that something is lost. The long, dirty, painful, and fundamentally base march of the disease is largely ignored. Unlike “Angels in America,” or even “Philadelphia,” “Rent”’s pop-rock songs and video montages fail to show the horror of AIDS, losing...
...Hispanics persists to this day. Bush is already giving up some symbolic territory. When he announced his guest-worker plan in 2004, he did so before an audience of 200 Latinos. By contrast, his speech this week on "border security and immigration reform" was scheduled for an Air Force base in Arizona. He planned to meet with border patrollers in Texas the next...