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...taking hold in the Senate's GOP caucus, some of its members tell me. They worry that some Republican senators who have been toying with the idea of retiring may decide to do so now, with the chance of their party retaking the chamber in 2002 looking bleaker. Senators who are good friends with Gramm say he was becoming increasingly bored and frustrated with being in the minority. Gramm, who had chaired the Senate Banking Committee, has had frosty relations with its new Democratic chairman, Sen. Paul Sarbanes. Gramm has been mentioned as a successor to the departing president...
Closer to home, where a Democratically held seat is twisting in the wind, the reaction was bleaker. Roberta Elstad, a retired Postal Service computer operator in Modesto, Calif., concluded, "It's over. I think he came out of this in worse shape than he went into it." Said Carl Kelly, a Modesto steelworker: "Let me put it to you this way: I didn't believe him before. I don't believe him now. I believe he knows something, I just don't know exactly what...
...35th birthday, however, things take a turn for the worse: The study shows that women aged 36 to 44 earn 80 percent of what men earn, and those aged 45 to 54 take home just 75 percent of men?s salary. Across the racial divide, the picture is even bleaker: For every dollar earned by a white man, a black woman earns 65 cents and a Hispanic woman earns just 52 cents...
...situation today is both bleaker and brighter than that in 1991. The AIDS pandemic is cutting through lives and communities like a scythe, threatening to swallow a whole generation. But international policy is coalescing like never before: in a historic summit, more than 30 African heads of state gathered in Nigeria last month for an AIDS conference. African leadership must be the core of any strategy to combat the epidemic. Now, after tragic years lost, it seems that such leadership is beginning to emerge. At that meeting, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the leaders to multiply their health...
...would be a mistake to judge the sit-in a victory. On the whole, Harvard students failed to rally behind the living wage. The concessions made by the University are temporary at best, and non-existent for the rest. At the end of the day, things only look bleaker for the living wage...