Inching To 60

摘要

Some glass ceilings are harder to shatter than others. America may have chosen its first black president. But there is another minority whose members are disproportionately poor, often languish in jail-and are still, in many states, barred from voting. Ted Stevens' valiant attempt to become the first convicted felon elected to the Senate ended in failure this week, bringing the Democrats within two seats of a filibuster-proof majority.rnUncle Ted (above), as Alaskans call him, was the longest-serving Republican senator. He hosed his home state with federal cash for roads to remote hamlets and huts for tired hikers. The Almanac of American Politics described him as "less a legislator than [a] philanthropist...although of course he is not spending his own money".