Based on her history, some analysts suspect that she remains, at heart, a neo-liberal interventionist, à la Tony Blair, or even, perhaps, an old-school Democratic hawk from the Scoop Jackson school.
In the space of his own lifetime, Washington saw himself transformed from a gung-ho, fox-hunting Virginia squire into the sanctified symbol of the new American nation, and in the centuries since, he's been used to signify revolutionary ardor, capitalistic greed, religious piety and old-school democratic ideals.
Collaboration is also something fostered by the school's democratic structure.
From Myanmar, we visit a UN-backed school of democratic governance for the country's fledgling elected politicians.
For many Hispanics in Texas, some of whom were punished as children for speaking Spanish at school, the Democratic gubernatorial debates set for Friday signaled a new era.
By one school of Democratic campaign strategy, these moves are missteps, as they return the conversation to the sore subject of Washington rather than keeping it trained on the district.
Ms. Luzzatto, who was born in St . Paul Minn., got a bachelor's degree in government at Harvard University and was the first woman elected president of the school's Democratic club.
He says that, in keeping with the school's democratic approach to education, non-completion of the MBA programme is not seen as a failure: "Because we're starting out to provide them with educational opportunities, there's no expectation that everyone has to finish.
Instead of inviting constituents to community centers or school auditoriums, Democratic lawmakers would send out dial-in information for conference calls.
