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Everyone remembers the classic Olympic moments--Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10, the U.S. ice hockey team's victory at Lake Placid, tai Babylonia and Randy Gardiner unable to skate. The Olympics represent the pinnacle of human athletic endeavor: Great talent, hard work, good sportspersonship...
...campaign progresses, Zindler thinks he will eventually be coordinating some kind of "outreach to younger voters through media," which he sees as an important endeavor...
...seize power for themselves. But the optimists are forgetting what might be called Murphy's Law of feminist struggle -- if the very word Murphy hadn't become so politically charged in the past few weeks -- which goes like this: When women get to take over some field of human endeavor, it is usually because that field has been downgraded to the level of broom pushing...
Most analysts hesitate, of course, to attribute the Year of the Woman to the mounting worthlessness of political endeavor. More commonly, they point to the restiveness of the female electorate, for which we can thank those great feminist organizers -- Clarence Thomas and William Kennedy Smith. We all recall the Hill-Thomas hearings and the ineradicable image of 14 white men forcing one petite black woman to recount porn-movie plots over and over while they endeavored to keep from licking their lips...
...leaders have floundered, scandals have mounted and cynicism has set in. But while their elders may recall the glory days of John F. Kennedy or even Franklin D. Roosevelt, people in the generation now coming of age have no memory of a time when politics was considered a noble endeavor and the men and women who practiced it were revered as pure heroes. "For a lot of people my age, their first political memory is Watergate," says Jonathan Cohn, a 22- year-old assistant editor at the American Prospect, a liberal quarterly. "That's not exactly a great foot...