Shared Love of Reading Pairs Senators and Students

By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
Washington

After a morning spent casting a key vote in the Senate Finance Committee, leading confirmation hearings for surgeon general nominee David Satcher, and questioning tobacco-company executives, Sen. James M. Jeffords rushes to make his "power lunch" a few blocks from the Capitol.

But he's not headed to a posh Washington bistro to meet with lobbyists or powerful constituents.

Instead, the Vermont Republican is hurrying off to spend an hour in the library of a nearby elementary school, where he'll be deep in discussion with a 10-year-old girl as they share a school lunch and...

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