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...perfect both portraits are. Reid's story is Twainian, a western desert tall tale, and his background is as brutal and hardscrabble as Jackson's. "I guess it's no secret that both my parents drank heavily," he finally says. "I didn't learn my family values in Searchlight," he adds, referring to the tiny Nevada mining town where his father committed suicide and his mother washed laundry for the local brothels. "Mormons were the most admirable people I met when I left home, and I guess I was looking for some stability. I don't like to talk about...
...arcane rules that require a 60-vote majority to stop a filibuster and get almost anything done. As it happens, the filibuster is a tactic Reid quite enjoys, since it gives him the opportunity to stall proceedings by reading aloud long passages from the book he wrote about Searchlight. His utter mastery of the rules and his reputation for honesty are why he got the job after his friend Tom Daschle of South Dakota was defeated for re-election...
Reid's position on abortion is both honorable and clever. These are formidable qualities in a legislative minority leader. The willingness--and toughness--to read aloud, in public, long, long passages about life in Searchlight won't hurt, either...
It’s almost 2005 and we still have to fight for our right to talk about sex, not to mention the right to legally recognize homosexual relationships or the right to have basic reproductive biology in schools. So it’s no surprise that the Fox Searchlight movie Kinsey—a film about Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the scientist who pioneered the discussion of sex in America—opened last month to widespread critical acclaim and, of course, stinging conservative condemnation...
...Reid's position on abortion is both honorable and clever. These are formidable qualities in a legislative minority leader. The willingness-and toughness-to read aloud, in public, long, long passages about life in Searchlight won't hurt, either...