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...mildness is mystifying. There are those who believe the Senator's unwillingness to criticize Bush has its roots in politics. "He flew too close to the sun," said a Connecticut Democrat who believes that Lieberman played nice with the President in the hope of securing both the Democratic and the Republican nominations for Senate this year. (The G.O.P. seems intent on running a hapless benchwarmer named Alan Schlesinger for the seat.) No politician is exempt from hubris, and so there may be something to the theory. But an almost saintly civility has always been part of Lieberman's modus operandi...
Despite media speculation about Condit's role, D.C. police said repeatedly that he was not a suspect. The controversy still cost him his 30-year political career. The Democrat lost his 2002 re-election bid and moved with his wife to Arizona in 2003. "He's a survivor, but [the defeat] crushed him," son Chad told Larry King last year. The Condits filed--and settled--defamation lawsuits against publications including the National Enquirer. Today Condit runs a couple of businesses, including a Baskin-Robbins--and avoids reporters...
Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, a Democrat, and Lt. Gov. Kerry M. Healey ’82, a Republican, were not in attendance...
...youth credibility they can. In some cases, that credibility comes from the candidates' own kids. Ned Lamont's daughter, Emily, runs his MySpace profile for her coursework as a Harvard sophomore. Twenty-year-old August Ritter also oversees the MySpace and Facebook profiles for his dad, Bill Ritter, a Democrat in Colorado's gubernatorial race...
...Meanwhile congressional Democrats, who've long complained that the prescription drug benefit is a disaster, were quick to pounce on these findings as more evidence of flaws in the program. "The poor quality of information is inexcusable," says Rep. Henry Waxman, senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee. "Seniors with basic questions about Medicare drug benefits are being left in the dark...