The Cellular Divide

摘要

If you want to be a republican president—and Bill Frist of Tennessee does—there's no better place to be on a Memorial Day weekend than where he was planning to be last Sunday: in Charlotte, N. C., at Lowe's Motor Speedway, waving a green flag as honorary starter of the Coca-Cola 600. For Frist, a product of prep school, Princeton and Harvard, it was the ultimate twofer, a chance for a senator and surgeon to bond with NASCAR and the Bible Belt. But it will take more than flag-waving for Frist, the Senate majority leader, to steer his way through this Congress—let alone from the Capitol to the White House. He's navigating a high-speed obstacle course, and roadblocks ahead include more controversial judicial nominations, perhaps a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, and the newest, arguably most politically dangerous of all: the emotionally freighted, divisive issue of federal funding for stem-cell research.