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...years ago, the Maynard family of rural Union County, South Dakota, received a Christmas card that read, "A 1995 New Year's wish for you and your family: death and destruction." Since 1992, the family had been getting hate mail from their neighbors. At one point, the family's youngest son, Casey Maynard, then 5, was told by a preschool playmate that the Maynards' house was going to be burned down. "Mommy, why do they hate my brother?" he asked his mother...
When Schaffer was appointed to the state legislature in 1987 at age 25, he was the youngest person ever to serve in the state Senate. During his nine years in office, he has sponsored welfare reform for minors receiving Aid for Families with Dependent Children and called for merit pay for teachers. Schaffer advocates lower taxes and a balanced-budget amendment, aiming to capitalize on the district's conservatism and continue the G.O.P.'s reign in a seat his party has held since...
...youngest Harvard benefactor was Matthew T. Ozug '00, who contributed $225 to the Kerry campaign...
FARAI CHIDEYA, 27, comes to TIME by way of MTV News and CNN, where she has become one of America's youngest and best-known talking heads, doing Generation X political analysis for Generation X viewers. A graduate of Harvard and a former reporter at Newsweek, Chideya hates the Gen X label but is resigned to using it "with a smirk in my voice." For this week's cover package, she tries to explain her generation's seeming lack of interest in current events. "It's not as if there's no base of knowledge," she says of her peers...
...Clinton drew nominal primary challengers and no general election competition to become Arkansas' attorney general. Same story in 1978, when he became the nation's youngest governor. Even after a near-fatal defeat in his 1980 re-election bid, Clinton faced a weak incumbent in 1982. Skipping forward 10 years, he won the Democratic nomination for president from a field widely considered the party's second-string, and went on to face George Bush, who was not exactly grounded in the political reality of his time. Now, in 1996, he faces Bob Dole. Tough...