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...Democrats were so split over Iraq that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi couldn't settle on any national leader to give the party's response to President George W. Bush's State of the Union address last winter. She instead turned to a brand-new Governor, Tim Kaine of Virginia, who was better known for his views on traffic and suburban sprawl than on national security...
...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...
...Webb is a much decorated Vietnam War hero, successful novelist and former Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan Administration. He is running in the Virginia Democratic Senate primary against Harris Miller, a longtime party activist and telecommunications-industry lobbyist. And it's strange: Webb's Democratic bona fides are the big question in the June 13 election, but he refuses to offer a pat answer. He wanders through his response, talking as a writer thinks, trying one pathway, then another--and it requires some patience from the audience, which is used to hearing politicians give smooth, market-tested replies...
...education.“If your aim is to have an impact on science literacy... you need to rivet your attention on the 46 million students in our public schools, not on graduate students in our universities,” he said.—Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...