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...need somebody who can step in who has a knowledge of what it takes to protect this country on a daily basis and that is what the Alaskan governor has done,” Mosher said, specifically referring to Alaska’s role in national missile defense...
...Consider also the case of veteran Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, found guilty on Monday of federal ethics violations for accepting unreported thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts, including a home renovation. Once the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the President pro tempore, Stevens had become over the years one of the most influential men in the Congress...
...Deadliest Catch--ification of politics. The more the electorate becomes suburban and diverse, the more pundits romanticize a definition of "working people"--like Discovery's Alaskan-crab fishermen--that is largely small town or rural, traditionally blue collar and white. The press spends months at the outset of each election at the independent diners and pancake breakfasts of Iowa and New Hampshire, a kind of museum-preserved Americana. Yet in 2000, according to U.S. Census data, only 59 million Americans lived in rural areas, and 30 million lived in small towns of fewer than 50,000 residents, compared with...
...Pipeline to Nowhere?" enlightened me on several levels [Oct. 13]. First, although paying her constituency understandably enhances Sarah Palin's popularity, it chafes me a bit. Doesn't Alaska belong to all of us? Why should part of the price I pay at the gas pump go into an Alaskan's pockets just because she lives there? Second, the story demonstrates Palin's worthiness to be McCain's running mate, since they both overstate their accomplishments. Vince Sigman, MALTA, OHIO...
...sylvan aromas of the German hinterland. It trumpets the glory of an autumn day spent pursuing the hides of harts and the hearts of women—sometimes both at once. It is a piece of extraordinary vigor that makes one understand why John McCain would choose a backwoods Alaskan huntress as his running mate. Or at least it should do all of this.But in Opera Boston’s underwhelming new production, playing Oct. 17-21 at Boston’s opulently beautiful Cutler Majestic Theatre, the orchestra fails to transmit the Romantic power of Weber?...