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...right-wing fundamentalists win elections, and neither party has the imagination, conviction, and party coherence necessary for a clash of ideas. In the United Kingdom, however, the kamikazes are doing their best to sink the new moderate Conservative leader, David Cameron.From my vantage point as an intern for a senior member of the U.K.’s Conservative Party—meaning, over the rims of teacups and stacks of photocopies—it seems the moderates have won the war for the heart of the Tory party. So-called “wets,” once thought...
...strange disappearance of Chandra Levy was the big mystery of the summer of 2001. The Washington intern, who had an affair with California Congressman Gary Condit, vanished that April, sparking a media frenzy that lasted for months. Five years later, her case is still open--and its impact lingers on its principals...
Post-Monica, the female intern in the nation's capital has a reputation that's part Catholic schoolgirl, part Paris Hilton: sexy, scantily clad and technically off-limits, but too clueless to know better. Such stereotyping isn't fair to most of the ambitious young women who flock to Washington each year (20,000 interns arrive every summer, counting the boys). But the visiting vixen's midriff-baring, miniskirted image rings true enough to have prompted a neologism--SKINTERNS--as well as efforts to make young women more presentable in Capitol Hill's still starchy environment. One intern coordinator marks...
...ride to work every morning humming the ‘West Wing’ theme under breath, you begin to notice something funny. All of the people walking about with their purposeful, ardent strides are young. Interrogation follows intuition; you quickly discover that they, like yourself, are interns. This process repeats itself again and again until you finally realize, with some chagrin, that you are just one of many thousands irresistibly drawn to this place of politics and power. Interns are the lifeblood of the city. Most Senate and Congressional offices have between five and 30: the interns often outnumber...
...Intern Masuma Ahuja contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...