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When the High Road Isn’t Enough

Dan St. Louis may never grace the cover of BusinessWeek magazine or dash off to board meetings in a Gulfstream jet. He works in a cramped, windowless office in a former Nickel’s department store that is now home to a branch of Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, N.C. But he is a man on […]

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Reform Done Right

Christopher Mixen, 23, looks very much like a college student in baggy cargo jeans, clean white sneakers and an oversized navy sweatshirt. His blond hair is cropped close, and his sharp, blue eyes gaze out from behind wire-framed glasses. But clipped to Mixen’s shirt is a photo ID badge that sums up his adulthood thus […]

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Pair Down

It didn’t take long for people to start conjuring the ghost of Bill Clinton in the person of Wesley Clark. In fact, long before Clark declared his candidacy, supporters and detractors alike were mining the similarities between the two men — both Rhodes Scholars and Arkansas natives — for deeper significance. Ironically, both liberals and […]

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