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Jeffrey E. Garten...
...battle of Obama vs. Clinton were being told by a Hollywood filmmaker instead of by the muse of history, the opening scene would be set beneath the spreading pecan trees of the Scholz Garten in Austin, Texas. Of all the beer joints in all the world, this venerable watering hole near the state capitol may come closest to the heart of Texas' Democratic Party. Liberals have been hatching plans here since Lyndon Johnson was a big-eared kid, and for a few months in 1972, it was the venue of choice for the young organizers of George McGovern's quixotic...
...then this scene would fade into a picture of the same Scholz Garten 36 years ago. The hair is shaggier, the eyeglasses bigger, but the buzz is the same. It's all about insurgency and outsiders and change and down with Establishments. McGovern, Gary Hart, Howard Dean, Obama - at Scholz's, fresh candidates' faces are always on tap. The only difference is that Hillary Clinton was hip to it 36 years ago and she's a victim of it today. This film is about coming full circle, and like all such tales, it is thick with poignancy. After 10 straight...
...Meanwhile, Texans for Obama is organizing a debate watching party at one of the city's legendary political watering holes. Over 400 self-styled Obamaniacs have signed up so far to gather at Scholz Garten, an old-style German beer garden near the capitol. It is a mythic place for Texas liberal Democrats - Davis said his activist parents hung out there 30 years ago - and many of the state's legendary progressives have gathered under the old pecan trees to weep in their beer and berate conservative Democrats and, later in the state's history, Republicans. It is the spot...
...position at Yale, Podolny will succeed Jeffrey E. Garten, who has served as dean of SOM since...