Turning 50, President Obama becomes a Washington tweener

Washington venerates its ancients, idealizing and idolizing the elder statesman, lavishing perks and institutional potency as rewards for seniority.

Yet the city also runs on the fuel of youth, the recent college grads who staff the offices, and the rising professionals whose ambitions juice the city's striver culture.

In the fuzzy middle between those poles lie the 50-somethings, federal Washington's version of tweeners, a demographic group fraught with generation-straddling, career-tweaking, life-altering conundrums: Dump that modest-paying but idealistic government gig for private-sector riches? Hang in there for one more term in hopes that a committee chairmanship finally will be yours?

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Karen Tumulty 03 Aug, 2011

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