It's Snowe fun any more

摘要

"With my Spartan ancestry," W explains Olympia Snowe, a Republican senator of Greek extraction, "I am a fighter at heart." But even Mrs Snowe is not ready to take on the Olym pian task of reviving the Senate's long lost tradition of bipartisanship. "An atmosphere of polarisation and 'my way or the highway' ideologies has become pervasive in campaigns and in our go verning institutions," she noted, prompt ing her to question "how productive an additional term would be".