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Warner recounted his life story before a largely friendly audience, talking about his youth at public schools in the Midwest and Connecticut, his matriculation to George Washington University (he is the first member of his family to attend college), his less-than-stellar record at Harvard Law School (when he failed to receive a job offer at the firms he worked for as a summer associate), and his early difficulties as an entrepreneur. (He ultimately co-founded a small phone company that became Nextel, and his personal net worth is estimated at nearly $200 million...
...Republican candidates to Bush and making the election about the Administration's mistakes in Iraq and during Hurricane Katrina, rather than touting their own proposals in long policy statements. "To my way of thinking, voters don't need lots of plans," says Dianne Farrell, a Democratic congressional candidate in Connecticut running against incumbent Republican Christopher Shays. "Voters get it." Still, after years of being a house divided, Democrats will soon show their unity on another issue, putting out their plans for the economy - while happily watching the GOP's continuing family feud...
...Bush over his warrantless spying program offered by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold. That idea won little support among his fellow Democrats. "I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence," says Paul Begala, the veteran Democratic strategist. The anti-war left is so mad at Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, for instance, that they're running a primary campaign against...
...would the bills affect lobbying on Capitol Hill? The Senate bill, claims cosponsor Christopher Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, would effectively put a NOT FOR SALE sign in front of the Capitol. But it is so weak that some reformers--including Republican John McCain and Democrat Russell Feingold--voted no. Both bills, says Fred Wertheimer, head of the nonpartisan Democracy 21 watchdog group, "leave lobbyists free to function in Congress exactly the way they have been functioning...
Most offenders share traits besides being accomplished, attractive and married. They tend to be socially naive and have a desperate need to be liked by their students, says University of Connecticut psychiatrist Catherine Lewis. That ultimately makes them unable to maintain proper teacher-student boundaries. And because they may lack the emotional maturity to negotiate age-appropriate relationships, being with a young boy feels less threatening to them. "They typically have had dysfunctional childhoods and poor relationships with their fathers as well as a pattern of abusive relationships," says Lewis. Whereas predatory male teachers often become involved with a series...