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Johnson and Frankel are waiting for more money from the stimulus bill package to trickle down, though Johnson fears bureaucratic delays. That means many of the people who need help won't get it through this bill, says Brad Hunter, director of the South Florida market of MetroStudy, a housing market research firm. The confusing, work-in-progress package, for example, is supposed to help first-time homeowners but won't help those who have already lost their homes...
...Samoan rapper King Kapisi would no doubt chime with these sentiments. For the King, a.k.a. Bill Urale, returning to the Pacific his family left to live in Wellington, New Zealand has brought mixed feelings. In the muscular rhythms of songs like Screams From Da Old Plantation, Urale presents Pacific culture as something to be contested, interrogated and recontextualized. "The thing I don't actually agree with," he says, "is how religion has become part of Samoa's culture. Personally, I think that culture and religion should be apart. Culture should be culture and religion should be religion. I'm just...
...Back when he was trying to be the Bill O'Reilly of the left, ranting as a host on Air America and writing books like Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, Franken didn't have to modulate his personality. Now he has cut way back on the joking and has become a little more boring than people are used to. Which wouldn't be a big deal - he's still funnier than any other candidate in American history - but voters here are so familiar with him that a little holding back erodes his authenticity. "Occasionally...
...fund raisers. He learned the local politics of Minnesota, first going to Washington to meet all the state's Representatives and then systematically meeting everyone who influences county politics and who would later need to be wooed at the state caucuses. "I enjoyed it, but not to the extent Bill Clinton does," says Franken. And he's a little worn down from all the fund-raising. "I don't mind calling people for money. I mind asking people for money for five hours in a row. It drives me crazy." His footing has been good, despite the fact that...
...Whig William Henry Harrison's brilliant "log cabin and hard cider" campaign, candidates have tried to strike an Everyman pose, and missteps that have made them look "out of touch" - like George H.W. Bush checking his watch during an economic debate, or John Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, or even Bill Clinton of Hope, Ark., getting an expensive haircut - have created major political headaches...