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When the Senate is not operating like a men's club, it behaves like a family -- a patriarchal, dysfunctional family. Not only does the Senate have all the institutionalized forms of sexism common in the corporate suite, but by dint + of its privileges and power it is one of the few places where acting like a cross between a rock star and the dictator of a banana republic is tolerated. One of the sessions during orientation for congressional spouses is on how to live with a celebrity. It's an atmosphere, says former Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods...
...same time, Major, who never attended a university, benefited from his image as a man of the people who had overcome his humble origins by dint of hard work and talent. Soft-spoken and calm, Major offered Tories a perfect compromise -- a continuation of Thatcher's basic policies without the drawbacks of her grating style...
...listed. These numbers are only a pale reflection of a wider problem. In tropical rain forests, loss of habitat is pushing at least 20,000 species a year into extinction, according to Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson. If the U.S. is to influence policy overseas, it will be by dint of example, not rhetoric. Wealthy nations must check their own appetites before asking far greater sacrifices of poorer nations...
Rather than drowning out America's once powerful voice, these summits could actually reaffirm the U.S. position as a global superpower. After wielding dominant military and economic power for the past half-century, the U.S. can no longer assume a central leadership role by dint of its muscle. Instead, the U.S. in the 1990s will have to lead by forging global consensus and coalition...
...interrogating East German defectors. A diary he briefly kept during this period tends toward the prosaic: "Attended Easter Service in downtown Stuttgart. Went away very much uninspired." Back in Troy, he mounted an uphill campaign for state representative in 1954 "to show that you could beat the system." By dint of his innate friendliness and the hard work of shaking 30,000 hands, he succeeded...