PUBLIC LIVES (click title to entry - thank you)
PUBLIC LIVES; From a Miner's Shack to the Senate, Guided by a Light
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: May 28, 2001
...Mr. Reid, 61, who grew up poor in a Nevada mining camp, was heretofore relatively anonymous. But he earned a place in history last week as the person who defied Washington convention and gave up an expected chairmanship of the Environment and Public Works Committee so that Mr. Jeffords would have a prestigious landing as he bailed out of the Republican fold....
