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...question is, Can Kathleen Brown pull it off? Can she subdue not only her Democratic rivals but also incumbent Republican Governor Pete Wilson? By most appearances, she has everything going for her. She has the name. As the youngest daughter of Pat Brown, the revered 1960s Governor who turned 89 last month, and as the kid sister of Jerry Brown, the erratically innovative Governor from 1975 to 1982, Kathleen, 48, is heir to California's most prominent political dynasty. And she has the money, having assiduously raised funds at $25 kaffeeklatsches and $500-a-plate banquets for the past...
Eisenhower won 55% of the vote, and the freshman Senator from California, still only 39, found himself the second youngest Vice President. He also found that a President and Vice President rarely like each other very much, because the latter's only real job is to wait for the former's death. Nixon faced the great test of this uneasy relationship when Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in September 1955. It was up to Nixon to chair Cabinet meetings and generally run the White House machinery without ever seeming to covet the power that lay just beyond his fingertips...
...youngest members, J.D. LaRock '95-'93, 19, read about the organization in New York News day. He called and joined up. LaRock, a former speechwriter and neoconservative wunderkind, who graduated from Harvard in two years, is from New York and says he fits right into the Third Millennium circle. "I hope we won't be a one-shot deal, have a sight," he said. If that happens, then this group of publicists and journalists will have to go back to being, well, publicists and journalists...
...environment in which to develop and grow. Scientists have learned that babies subjected to repeated trauma or stress or left unattended for too long may suffer neurological effects that can, in extreme cases, be irreversible. But as a society, the U.S. seems to have forgotten the needs of its youngest children. Of the 12 million American babies and toddlers under age three, a staggering number are at risk of harm that could last a lifetime, according to a new report by Carnegie Corp. of New York, a major philanthropic foundation. Many of the statistics cited were already known, but pulled...
...America neglects its youngest -- and most vulnerable -- kids...