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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
| Date: |
12 Sep 2004 03:20:20 PM |
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OT: Hey, Guys, the Action's Down There |
Hey, Guys, the Action's Down There
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13389-2004Sep11?language=printer
By Joel Kotkin
Sunday, September 12, 2004; Page B01
First came the newspaper ads. "Retro vs. Metro" they read, featuring a
head shot of Newt Gingrich (retro) facing one of Hillary Rodham
Clinton (metro). Or Mel Gibson (retro) contrasted with Michael Moore
(metro). The mystery of their message had people talking for a while.
Turns out it was all about a book, one that purports to have the
secret to a "winning strategy" for the Democrats in November.
"The Great Divide" is the self-published -- and vigorously
self-promoted -- brainchild of an eccentric 83-year-old Arizona
billionaire businessman named John Sperling, founder of the for-profit
University of Phoenix. It suggests that Sen. John Kerry can ace the
election this fall by taking advantage of a growing conflict between
what the book describes as a highly sophisticated, productive "metro"
economy based largely in the Northeast and on the West Coast, and a
troglodyte, parasitic "retro" economy located in the South and parts
of the West and Southwest.
Metro Retro
http://news.google.com/news?q=Metro%20Retro&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Metro+Retro&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Metro+Retro&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Metro%20Retro&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=dg
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Metro%20Retro&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Metro OR Retro
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20Metro%20OR%20Retro&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Metro+OR+Retro&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Metro+OR+Retro&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_oq=Metro%20Retro&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Joel Kotkin
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Joel%20Kotkin%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Joel+Kotkin%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Joel+Kotkin%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Joel%20Kotkin&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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