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...might think the choice should be easy. If you favor strict federal regulation of how much milk you may put on your cereal in the morning, vote for Ralph. If you favor the death penalty for anyone referring to Reagan National Airport as National Airport, vote for Pat. But the differences between the two are not as great as they seem...
...Ralph takes positions on all issues, and they add up to a fairly conventional left-populist world view. But that bizarrely puts him and Buchanan in just about the same place on, for example, the evils of multinational corporations...
...running for political office, Nader is also answering the most important complaint about his previous modus operandi--an overreliance on lawyers and lawsuits. Important social-policy decisions should be made by the voters and their representatives, not by unelected judges. So now Ralph is saying, with Buchananesque bravura: You want the voters to decide? O.K., bring...
...fortunes of the likes of Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Timberland over the past decade are testimony to the power of hip-hop as American taste-maker. Initially, the effect is achieved by unsolicited appropriation - Ralph Lauren's ads were full of white preppies, but that didn't stop the hip-hop generation from buying his wares. Lauren's ad agency acknowledged that much by inserting Tyson Beckwith into the preppy mix, launching the career of the first black male supermodel. Hip-hop's power to direct tastes in everything from malt liquor to SUVs is today assiduously courted...
...coach and scout who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors in 1947; in Waldoboro, Maine. Dodgers president Branch Rickey dispatched Sukeforth to scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...