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Before Rock Hudson's marriage to Phyllis Gates, media coverage of his love life walked a fine line, Reporters paid lip service to his fabricated heterosexual relationships but also raised eyebrows at his continuing bachelorhood.
The Bush administration has paid lip service to human rights concerns in Chechnya and to the need for Russia to negotiate with moderate Chechens.
Professor Leonard further ponders whether the latest incarnation of white populists will be like earlier populists who paid lip service to anti-racism only to "secure political power on the back of black voters," or whether they "reflect a history of white intellectuals who have joined people of color in an effort to dream America anew.
 
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