Word: youngers
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Primogeniture must go. To paraphrase Bob Dole: Wake up, Republicans, and join the rush to meritocracy. To make room for younger, stronger candidates without dissing your elder statesmen, consider something like the Oscars' Irving Thalberg Lifetime Achievement Award. Snag some headline entertainer like Jay Leno sufficient to attract network coverage, and air the same hagiographic film that would otherwise be shown at the convention. Better that the candidate end his career in prime time, droning on about his second-grade teacher, than at sparsely attended airport rallies, shouting epithets into the wind...
...foreigner, why not Vivienne Westwood, a more experienced Brit, who has shown in Paris for years and even troubled to study Dior's own output in detail? But Bernard Arnault, whose LVMH owns both Dior and Givenchy, is betting his money that the route to a younger market--the new, galvanizing image that has evaded the old couture houses in recent years--lies across the Channel. For if Galliano is famous for his sizzling sense of romance, McQueen delivers exquisite tailoring and "kick-arse clothes." And both newcomers pack an intangible in their sewing kits: they radiate a genius, confidence...
...104th Congresses. During that time he has also served on three committees, including National Security, where he looks out for his district's McDonnell Douglas Corp., which employs thousands of his constituents. An early welfare-reform proponent, in 1994 he proposed to cut off funds for unmarried mothers younger than...
...Committee, Paxon was an author of the Contract with America and a key player in the G.O.P. landslide of 1994. A tireless, effective fund raiser, he is also married to Representative Susan Molinari (District 13). The only husband-wife congressional team, they are often spotlighted as symbols of the younger wing of the G.O.P. But as the novelty of the Contract becomes tarnished by political bickering, Paxon is finding himself in a real race for his House seat...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "As bad as the truth [about Medicare] is for seniors, it's worse for younger Americans...they must pay ever higher taxes for a program that will be wiped out before they actually qualify for benefits...