Word: heartlanders
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...system, and heads off down the highway to spread the news and stretch his newfound spiritual wings. Sadly, that's where the resemblance ends between the footloose Beat novelist and 21-year-old Lucas Helder, whose strange idea of raising America's consciousness was to plant explosives in heartland mailboxes...
...many cultural figures of the past decade have been simultaneously cutting edge and mainstream? Quentin Tarantino had a moment in 1994, but that's all it was. Moby, however, is three years into his ride as the king of both hip and heartland. He's a dance musician who plays rock songs, a devout Christian who hates religious fervor, a scrawny bald guy who dates Christina Ricci and Natalie Portman, and an operator who sold every track on his last album, Play, for corporate use while often wearing a T shirt for anarchist punk group Minor Threat...
...horrors on the front line find an equal in the nightmare now unfolding inside the Maoist heartland. Since November, the Maoists have instituted a systematic "purification" campaign: to reduce their territory to chaos and rubble and eliminate all opposition. As well as crippling and killing government supporters, they have turned their terror on anyone who might represent stability or an alternative authority. Postmen, health workers, moneylenders, landowners, teachers, all have become targets for public floggings or executions. The guerrillas have executed about 200 people in the past six months and tortured thousands more. Bands of rebels are also descending...
...best way to speed up this process is to cut the eastern lines free from the millstone of a nationwide passenger service. Amtrak regularly loses $200 per passenger in the heartland. Although rail enthusiasts would be outraged, an eastern corridor rail line would be better able to petition money effectively from the government and thus improve itself...
Ukraine should be one of the powerhouses of Europe: bigger than France and Switzerland combined, rich soil, a well-educated population of 50 million, once part of the industrial heartland of the Soviet Union. Instead, it is an embarrassment, marginalized as smaller neighbors like Poland and Hungary prepare to join the European Union - and most other European leaders try not to think about it. Pretty much the only time Ukraine makes the front pages, in fact, is when another scandal blows up. Like the one involving former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, now in detention in the U.S. but pleading...