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The Virginians
Want to know how the campaigns ahead will unfold? Look to the Old Dominion, where two rising stars offer competing models for how to succeed with Southern voters.
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Dec. 26, 2005 - Jan 2, 2006 issue - As young men in law school in the 1970s, neither Mark Warner nor George Allen set the legal world on fire. At Harvard, Warner founded a group called the Somerville Bar Review—that's "bar" as in drinking studies, not professional ones. "I was the only guy I knew who didn't get law-firm offers after summer internships," he says. At the University of Virginia, Allen lived in a cabin on the mountaintop next to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. But the scenery did more to inspire a passion for deer hunting than textbook reading; his mud-spattered truck was a rare sight in the law-school parking lot. "I probably didn't fit in real well," he says.
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