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Democratic factions tend to be sedimentary. The oldest Old Democrats are blue-collar economic populists like Dick Gephardt, who also tend to be pro-military, churchgoing and socially conservative. In the 1970s they were supplanted by radical-liberal activists, refugees from the 1960s protest marches who tended to be antiwar, antipoverty, passionate about civil rights and civil liberties and more secular than the lunch-pail crowd. Bill Clinton's New Democrat movement was an information-age reaction against the two previous generations--a free-trade, business-friendly revision of traditional Democratic economics and a socially conservative reaction to the excesses...
Included in the collection are some the oldest preserved American Indian artifacts, currently on display to celebrate the bicentennial of Lewis and Clarkâs expedition across North America...
...have a Jewish grandchild and a Muslim grandchild. The Muslim is only 4. She doesn't understand anything. I'm working on her not to have any religion. And the oldest one is an Orthodox Jew. I gave him the biggest bar mitzvah ever...
Global Volunteers is one of the oldest nonsectarian organizations to offer short-term "volunteer vacations." Kenny and Jackie Slutsky booked a two-week family trip to Carnitas, a small village in Costa Rica, where their team of 14 volunteers worked alongside a team of 14 locals to build a town recreation center. The work was physically demanding, but the whole family agrees that it's been their best vacation. "It's very rewarding to see something rise out of nothing," says Kenny, "and it was wonderful to see our kids be so nurturing to the local children--and be nurtured...
Like many of the characters he writes about, Meehan had a modest upbringing that was the prelude to a life of fame and fortune. Raised in Suffern, N.Y., then a small town dotted with apple orchards, he was the oldest of four brothers and sisters. When he was 15, his father died, and his mother returned to nursing to support her family. He says with astonishment in almost a whisper that he has a jacket that cost as much as the house he grew...