Word: elders
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...leaders in congressional history: at 47, in just his second term in the Senate, he had never even chaired a committee. His supporters had been mostly from the younger generation of Senators elected in his class. After he squeaked into the leader's job by a one-vote margin, elder Democrats tittered behind the scenes, sure he would turn to putty in the masterly hands of majority leader Bob Dole...
...after the Great Panhandle Mishandle, instead of doing election postmortems, the news industry received a spectacular lagniappe: a fractious postelection campaign, made and played for TV. It was Monica with a side of Elian and a glass of O.J., polarizing and interminable, with disputed facts and plenty of lawyers. Elder statesmen James Baker and Warren Christopher, brought in as recount "observers," held dueling press conferences, like Cochrans and Ramsays. In battles like this, television news is a better divider than uniter: its formats, from Hardball to Burden of Proof, are about opposition. A constitutional crisis became electotainment...
THERESA LEPORE Palm Beach ballot designer causes more elder confusion than a two-part Matlock
...performance itself is strongest when it is most experimental; Shrew tends to stumble when it gets further away from innovation. The opening scene has Bianca (Meg Weathers '04) physically tied to a chair by her elder sister Kate (Sarah Porter, '03), making the power struggle both highly visual and immediate. The intensity of the moment, however, quickly finds itself with nowhere to go, and much of the energy dissipates as the dialogue of the scene progresses. In a variety of roles, among them Baptista, the girls' father, Jack Riccobono '03 shifts between several partially successful attempts at development-difficult enough...
...biggest guns in the business frequent the site, including the legendary Buddy Emmons, who is frequently referred to in postings simply as The Greatest Pedal Steel Player Who Ever Lived. A query about the history of the instrument gets me a personal e-mail from one of its elder statesmen, Maurice Anderson. It's the pedal steel equivalent of a guitar chat group where Jeff Beck or George Benson would weigh in occasionally...