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Roiter feels that her role as an elder co-captain helps her teammates to adapt as well--particularly to the game pressure...
...situation is a lot like the one Ed Muskie faced when he ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972. Muskie failed to accommodate the Democrats' antiwar majority and his attempt, he later said, was a mistake because "it destroyed my core support." Like Muskie, Dole is now trying to adapt himself to the changing center of gravity in his party. That he should have to make the effort at all tells you how far rightward the G.O.P. has tilted. Until now, no one has challenged Dole's conservatism. However, evidence of Dole's compassion--his support for school lunches, food...
...does it having to combat the perception that his time has already passed. Nevertheless, says Mack McLarty, one of Clinton's oldest friends and now a counselor to the President, "he feels quite hopeful. He's not frustrated or blue or disappointed. He has an ability to adapt, to figure out a way to get things done." In this case, getting things done means becoming the first Democrat to win two terms since Franklin Roosevelt. And if he succeeds, Clinton will have one more thing to figure out: how to turn victory's reward into something more than four years...
...Restoration is bringing the building back to its original condition," Venturi said. "And at the same time there is renovation because the building has to adapt to modified uses...
...only be to the good, it may be marriage itself-along with the most basic institutions like the workplace-that continues to need refining. "I would say we're in a stalled revolution," says Hochschild, "Women have gone into the labor force, but not much else has changed to adapt to that new situation. We have not rewired the notion of manhood so that it makes sense to men to participate at home. Marriage then becomes the shock absorber of those strains...