Word: benchers
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She’s a baroness in the House of Lords and the first Muslim front-bencher in British parliamentary history, but now Kishwer Falkner has a new honor to attach to her name: Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow. She joins five others who, according to the IOP Fellows Committee chair, sport “the most diverse backgrounds in recent memory.” The other fellows include Congressional aide James F. Flug ’60, grassroots political organizer Karen Hicks, youth service corps leader Alan A. Khazei ’83, Republican communications strategist Christina Martin...
...People who like the big picture like sitting in the back benches, and Bush was known as a back bencher,” remembers Charles Braxton...