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Daschle is keeping an eye on Breaux, who is trying to forge a bipartisan voting bloc called the Senate Centrist Coalition, one of many moderate groups now springing up like mushrooms after a Florida rain. Breaux could pose a threat to Daschle's Democratic unity and to his status as the ultimate go-to Democrat in the Senate--a role Daschle has no intention of relinquishing. "Unless President-elect Bush can develop a working relationship with Tom, he's not going to get a lot out of the Democrats," says New Mexico Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman. That's the message...
...Jane's spirit as firmly as any of her Victorian taskmasters. In the novel, for example, Jane makes a momentous decision, at age 18, to leave her stultifying school and strike out on her own. She writes up a newspaper ad seeking employment, trudges miles to town in the rain to deliver it, then treks back a week later to pick up the one and only reply. It's a quietly stirring proto-feminist sequence, but here it is transmuted into the banal musical yearnings of a romantic teenage girl: "Over mountains, over oceans/Heaven take me away/For I long...
...Election Day be a national holiday. It should be a day of contemplation and choice, not running out on your lunch break in the rain. Yes, some people will take the day off, and play hooky from the polls. So be it. The inspired will vote if they want to matter, just like always...
...Distance. There is nothing like a commute to create the idea of home. Though the walk to the house is not long it has, this weekend, been entirely full of rain in both directions. Each will to leave (excluding the walks around the block: see #6) is a deliberate venture into the world. As a resident of a river House, these details of journey are fascinating...
...dozen members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) joined representatives from about 20 schools, braving intermittent freezing rain to demonstrate for nearly four hours in front of the Gap and Niketown--stores which PSLM members said sell clothing produced under poor labor conditions...