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Sure, we have our professors from time to time, and the occasional north of 30 encounter with other members of the University community, but these are few and far between. We eat, sleep, study, party, do laundry, go shopping and watch sporting events all with members of our own narrow age group. In short, we are left feeling neither young nor old, but "X." I miss living with adults and going to school with kids; I miss seeing my age every day on the faces of others...
...years ago. They are people who went to college well and accurately, especially if they are under 30, and who know something of missing fields like geography and physical anthropology, fields that enable one to travel well. They are listeners who think in terms far more sophisticated than the narrow ones of English-only United States news media...
Buchanan, who claimed a narrow victory in New Hampshire, was looking this week to take advantage of the split in the more moderate conservative vote between Dole and Alexander to push his more radical, isolationist agenda...
Just before he is to go on, Pat peeks through a narrow door in the balcony, the veteran thespian appraising his audience. He walks to a holding room across the hall. From downstairs, the music of Pat's rousing fight song, with the refrain "Go, Pat, go!" fills the small room. He pantomimes a softshoe, smiles at his wife and says, "Come on, Shelley, they're playing our song." But Shelley, hugging the wall, resists his overture, and moments later, Pat Buchanan, the old-fashioned footlights throwing dramatic shadows across his face, is onstage declaiming his dark poetry...
...OFfices, there is someone like Ann Eppard: the fierce gatekeeper deciding who sees the Congressman and who doesn't, the lieutenant whose years of iron loyalty have been rewarded with his deepest trust, the steward of his fund raising. Rarely are these staff members known outside the lawmaker's narrow orbit. But when Eppard left Capitol Hill the day after the 1994 election to start her own lobbying firm, many of the nation's richest interests were clamoring to sign her up, showering her with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees...