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...Democratic presidential majority emerging? Not really. The winning presidential coalition that Bill Clinton nurtured in 1992 and '96 had begun to suggest its potential even in 1988, evolving from the three regional pillars of losing 1968-88 liberalism: the Northeast, the upper Midwest and the Pacific. In 1992 and again this year, these became the core of a Democratic plurality that, with the support of independents and moderate Republicans, was able to capture the White House. But this coalition, united largely by a concern that the current brand of G.O.P. conservatism is too extreme to control more than one branch...
...materials found in Jewell's Atlanta apartment and Piedmont, Ga. house to the FBI crime lab in Washington, questioning colleagues at his previous job and searching his former residence. Piedmont College officials were questioned after contacting the agency. Jewell, a former public safety officer on the campus, 80 miles northeast of Atlanta, allegedly told the college security chief upon quitting to take the job at the AT&T pavilion in Centennial Park that he would be a hero at the Olympic Games and that if "anything happens," he hoped to be at the center of the action. Testifying before...
While such disparity seems outrageous, it is the inevitable outcome of an historical chain of events. In the 1800s, New Bedford's whaling industry made it the wealthiest city, per capita, in the nation. As the whaling died out, the city, like most of its neighbors in the Northeast, began to focus on the tremendous textile industry. All over New England, towns like Lowell, Lawrence and Fall River sprang up around the new mills that were pumping out cotton cloth...
...turn of the century, many mills began to move south. No longer could the benefits of deep harbors, access to capital and an abundance of energy offset the virtue of cheap labor. Cities across the northeast--Boston as much as New Bedford or Fall River--became decaying monuments to the industrial revolution and the region's past glory...
...years ago, the visit of the regional Communist Party chief--in those days a figure of almost unimaginable power and privilege--would have been a momentous occasion for Sogra, a village located 580 miles northeast of Moscow. Earlier this month, however, when former regional first secretary Yuri Guskov (now a member of the Russian parliament and a big man in the diamond business) came to campaign for Communist presidential candidate Gennadi Zyuganov, he drew a crowd generously estimated...