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...Latham has acknowledged that growing up in the 1970s, his values "were based on the politics of us versus them." In Sydney parlance, he was a "westie." When the city had a million fewer people, the term was meant to be derogatory, signifying fibro housing, welfare mothers, hotted-up cars, small-time crime and a yobbo monoculture. Having lived his entire life in the area, Latham now wears the westie tag with pride. After two decades of sustained economic growth and speculative residential building, places that were once farms, woodland and light-industrial sites have been transformed...
...policy wonk. Still, several themes have endured. First, there's enormous self-belief; Latham "backs himself" and would like others to aspire to better things. Second, he believes in Labor - not just as a political party, but as a movement - "a movement that needs to energize its base and create new causes and constituencies," as he wrote in From the Suburbs. These two streams come together in his desire to take Labor, and the nation, on his ladder of opportunity. "Economic aspiration is good and social mobility is even better - all Australians climbing the ladder of opportunity," he told Labor...
...social studies concentrator in Eliot House, hails from the Cambridge of the Southwest, Santa Fe, New Mexico. In his column, “Base Politics,” he will try to justify his life by making the peons of electoral politics seem important. His column will run on alternate Tuesdays...
...track, according to electoral officials. Rather than setting up registration stations that could be attacked by insurgents and requiring Iraqis to face intimidation from naysayers upon entering and leaving, the electoral commission - comprised of a UN adviser and eight Iraqi technocrats appointed by the UN - has opted to base the voter roll on the ration cards issued to Iraqi households by the UN to supply them with food during the decade of international sanctions. In November, when the heads of most Iraqi households collect their ration cards for 2005, they'll also be invited to register. (Other arrangements will...
...just some stage show just for us." But what about the mushroom cloud that was spotted about 60 miles to the west of the dam, near the town of Woltanri? The area doesn't have a river worth damming, former residents say, but it does have a missile base, as well as, according to a frequent visitor, a munitions plant. An accidental explosion of rocket propellant--possibly a missile launch gone awry--could have caused the mushroom cloud, analysts say. Another possibility: Pyongyang blew up something to keep the world guessing about its nuclear intentions--a tactic the regime...