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...brought in a female city manager, city attorney and city clerk. The women have spearheaded an aggressive revitalization project, rezoning to oust adult entertainment, landscaping the town's main thoroughfares and wooing new businesses. "We've turned the city around," says city commissioner Sandra Solomon [the writer's aunt]. Charlene Glancy, another founding member of the political action committee, is running for mayor against the male incumbent and two male challengers. If she wins the Aug. 26 race, Casselberry's government will be almost 90% female...
...possibility that the oppressed might eke out moments of joy amid their sorrows. This was the subject matter of a sprightly little tale titled A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It, published in the 1870s. The narrator asks his 60-ish black servant, Aunt Rachel--who spent most of her life as a slave--why she is so happy all the time. The story is her answer, and I will not spoil it other than to suggest that Twain manages, in just a few pages, to lead us through the complexities of seeking happiness when your...
Fuller was the descendant of a distinguished and nonconformist New England family. (His great aunt was the early feminist Margaret Fuller.) He never finished college--he was expelled from Harvard twice--and by the 1920s, he was a failed businessman and, perhaps, a would-be suicide. (On the basis of his journals, some scholars doubt it.) That was when he claims a voice came to him saying he had no right to take his own life, because he had important work to do. "You do not belong to you," said the voice. "You belong to Universe." That's Universe...
...early evening in Grand Tower, Ill., and Josh Franklin, 23, was standing outside his aunt's double-wide trailer. He'd like to move away from this community of 585 people to Carbondale, a college town about half an hour's drive to the north. But he can't afford to. Grand Tower isn't much of anyplace anymore. Its last restaurant closed shortly after the great flood of 1993. There isn't a bookstore. Don't even ask about wi-fi access. "If we get a major flood," he says, "it's all over. A lot of small towns...
...Friday, the jurors sent Judge Vincent M. Gaughan a note asking if they could deliberate into early evening, rather than ending about 5 p.m., perhaps to avoid working into Saturday. Then, one juror, a 30-something black man, asked to be excused saying a cousin had died Monday, his aunt and uncle had been hospitalized with pneumonia-related complications and his niece been diagnosed with cancer. Also, he said, "my mom is freaking out." The judge swiftly denied the man's request to be excused, dismissed the three alternates and snapped, "We've reached the point of no return...