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...Iyer, Sen's humanism emerges in the empathetic way she explores an array of starkly different characters. In the extensive scenes on the bus, there is an old Muslim couple, a pair of newlyweds, a mother with her handicapped son, college kids on their summer break, a Jew and two Sikhs, who together represent a kind of mini-India. Sen uses the reactions of each character to the violence unfolding around them as a mirror that reflects the clashing attitudes Indians hold toward one another. Her attention to detail is one of her great strengths, and the film skillfully captures...
...West Virginia, U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV ’58, a Democrat, looks safe in his reelection bid against Republican Jay Wolfe, a former state senator...
...Wolfe received 35 percent of the vote as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Robert C. Byrd...
...Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) was by all accounts a man of integrity, class and conviction. Throughout his 12 years in the Senate, both liberals and conservatives in Washington respected his principled approach to national politics. He was a senator who didn’t mind being on the losing side of 99-1 or 98-2 votes if he thought he was voting his conscience. In an era of combative politicking and bitter partisan feuds, Wellstone truly stood out amongst his Senate colleagues as a symbol of candor and sincerity; there was nothing phony or contrived about...
More upsetting than the tone of some of the speakers was the cheering and jeering that accompanied the appearance of various political figures on the arena’s big-screen monitors. Former president Bill Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) received raucous applause when they were shown on the screens, while Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), former Sen. Rod Grams (R-Minn.) and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura were jeered and booed. When Walter Mondale was shown, the crowd could...