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...small, fifth-floor walk-up on the Lower East Side of New York City, we, along with singer Mary Travers, explored the musical boundaries of a nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," in search of a vocal blend. What we--the members of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary--found instead was rapport, affection and a calling that lasted nearly 50 years...
...harder job. In part, that is because of the way the Senate is set up as an institution. The majority leader's powers are far weaker than those of the Speaker, and he has fewer parliamentary tools for controlling what happens to a bill once it hits the floor of his chamber. He must also contend with the fact that it takes 60 votes on almost anything to overcome a filibuster. Reid must also grapple with the two bills passed by his committees - the Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee - which approach the health-reform...
...controversial proposal to set up a government-run plan, similar to Medicare, as an alternative to private insurers for covering the uninsured. Will he include the plan, as the HELP Committee bill did, inviting a certain effort to strike it out of the bill by amendment on the floor? Or will he offer a bill similar to the Finance Committee's, which does not contain the public option, and see an effort to add it on the floor? "Reid's not tipping his hand," says one of his aides. (Read "Health Reform's Public Option: Down...
...Steve Birnhak has another idea: turning empty storefronts into billboards. The company he founded, New York-based Inwindow Outdoor, connects property owners with advertisers who are willing to pay for window space, conveniently located at eye level of anyone walking or driving by. The ads go from floor to ceiling and are pretty hard to miss. One recent Chicago project advertised Intel over the entire façade of a now defunct Comp USA store...
British members of Parliament and their prospective challengers are thronging onto social-networking sites with all the enthusiasm and grace of dads getting down on the dance floor. Their aim: to capture the elusive - and largely uninterested - youth vote when the country goes to the polls sometime before June 2010. With 79 of Britain's 645 MPs currently using Twitter alongside almost 200 prospective parliamentary candidates and a raft of Westminster journalists and bloggers, digital politics has become as crowded and combustible as the analogue version. The latest conflagration - a battle between Conservative blogger Donal Blaney and a Twitter imposter...