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...Jim Webb is standing at parade rest, feet apart at shoulder width, chin out, quiet blue eyes scanning his target of opportunity-the assembled Democrats of Montgomery County, Virginia-and waiting for local party chieftain Steve Cochran to ask him something. "Well, looking through this," Cochran says, riffling through a series of questions written on three-by-five cards, "there's one dominant theme. People want to know why you became a Democrat after all those years as a Republican, and why you endorsed George Allen for the U.S. Senate over Chuck Robb in 2000, and why you want...
...years, the tide of political conversions has been running in the opposite direction, from Democrat to Republican, and most of the converts were people like Webb: white, Southern, middle class or poorer, patriotic and, often, with a strong family tradition of military service-in fact, Webb's son Jim Jr. is a Marine lance corporal headed to Ramadi. Webb's conversion may be a sign that those sorts of people may now be willing to give the Democrats a second look. A standard-issue Democrat like Miller would probably be cannon fodder for a Republican incumbent like Allen, a party...
Crane's currency challengers have found a champion in Arizona Republican Representative Jim Kolbe. A free trader who calls the Crane monopoly "un-American," Kolbe has introduced legislation every year for a decade to overturn the laws that he says favor Crane. "First, there's the provision that only companies that are [at least] 90% American-owned can bid," he says. "We don't allow that for anything else, not even defense." The Secret Service insists that money must be produced and printed within the U.S. to maintain security, but the GAO found no reason to bar foreign companies from...
...years working in more than 20 countries, I have always dreamed that there would someday be enough money for the control of diseases in underdeveloped countries. Perhaps my dreams will come true through the immense generosity of that couple. Fereydoun Arfaa Danville, California, U.S. After reading about Costco CEO Jim Sinegal, I am getting a membership to Costco and will never again darken the doorway of Wal-Mart. It seems that Sinegal understands what many companies knew 50 years ago: if you take good care of good employees, they will serve the company, not only themselves. Paul Herman Sun City...
...down when the subject of war comes up. "Nothing's going to happen. Mom's always on top of things and cheerful. Dad worked at the Pentagon, Mom at the White House. Nothing's going to happen." And her leg keeps tapping, up and down. --Reported by Jim Lacey/Kuwait, Cathy Booth Thomas/Fort Campbell, Rita Healy/Denver, Hilary Hylton/Fort Hood, Constance E. Richards/Asheville and Mark Thompson/Washington