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...Caribou, Maine, she went straight out of college in 1975 to work as an aide to Republican Senator Bill Cohen. When he retired in 1996, Collins won his seat. While relatively new to the Senate, she doesn't share the strong conservatism of many of the chamber's younger Republicans. For instance, she has not supported George Bush's plan for personal-investment accounts as part of his Social Security reform...
...showdown was not more easily avoided reflects a generational shift under way in the Senate, and the fact that the once insular institution has become more reflective of the polarized political landscape around it. Moderates, of either party, are few. Traditionalists like Warner have increasingly been supplanted by a younger generation of Republican Senators, most of whom have arrived there by way of the more autocratic House, where on most questions it doesn't make any difference to the outcome whether the Democrats even show up to vote. In the 2004 election, six of the seven Republican freshmen came from...
...Minister. Such irresponsible leadership wrecked our country. So we cannot just go on blaming the King or the Maoists, because they are not the prime causes of the discord. The only way that the parliamentary processes can be revived is for party leaders to hand over leadership to the younger and more competent generation. Democracy cannot be synonymous with anarchy and whim. Rishav Shrestha Kathmandu...
...come to terms with her place at West Point and her reasons for being there. "If I were one year younger and 9/11 had happened while I was still in high school, there's no way I ever would have come here," she says. "To be honest, I am scared. But I've learned a lot here, and I think I'm ready to lead people, even to war." The once reluctant cadet has even become an evangelist of sorts. Beyer's little brother Billy, every bit as laid back as his sister was at his age, was inspired...
...Abdallah Schleifer, director of the Adham Center for Television at the American University in Cairo. Parsons goes so far as to suggest that the English channel could cash in on al-Jazeera's bad-boy rep with viewers who have become cynical about the mainstream media. "In the younger market, al-Jazeera actually carries a lot of street cred," he says. "It is perceived as being slightly antiestablishment, the enfant terrible of broadcasting." In a 4 1/2-min. p.r. video being prepared for potential distributors and advertisers, al-Jazeera execs refrain from using bin Laden's image but otherwise do little...