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And while it's certainly true that people in their late '20s and early '30s--at least in cities, where those people are less likely to have families--have a lot of disposable income, it can't compare, in absolute terms, to that still wielded by the baby boomers.
The Washington Post , New York Times and Los Angeles Times lead with the early returns from Russia's parliamentary elections, surprising because they show that centrist and reform parties, including a brand-new Kremlin-based bloc, the Unity party, have made gains that significantly cut into the power long wielded in the legislature by the communists.
But the instruments it has to do this with are blunt compared with the authority it wielded two decades ago.
Morrison has wielded so effortlessly in the past."
The LAT cites one argument Democrats wielded, but to no avail: when the House Ethics committee reprimanded Newt Gingrich last year, he was given an advance copy of the report.