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...understand the appeal the former Prentiss County chancery clerk has in deep red northern Mississippi, it's less helpful to know his party affiliation than to watch him deliver a 15-minute soliloquy on the glories of fried green tomatoes over lunch in Columbus or work the crowd at the annual Good Ole Boys and Gals political barbecue in Oxford or react to the news that squirrel dumplings would be served at a cookout in Yalobusha County. "Honey child!" Childers shouted with glee. "I think it's fair to say," he told me later, "that I'm a squirrel-dumpling...
...brief moment on Friday, Albuquerque, N.M., police officers wondered if it was illegal to drink and vote. Why? A woman had passed out while casting her ballot at an early-voting site. Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver doesn't know if the woman completed her ballot - she was subsequently transported by ambulance to a local hospital, which has no record of admitting her - but said it will be counted...
...strange situation," observes a 29 year-old shoe-store clerk and mother of one, who asks not to be named. "Zalaegerszeg is a factory town that may soon have no factories. Many people here will have to go to Austria or the U.K. for work." But despite the mounting anxiety, few blame the global forces that have exacerbated Zalabaromfi's predicament. As the IMF offers Hungary financial and technical assistance to stem the flow of millions of dollars in foreign investment out of the country, and to help steady the nation's sinking currency, Hungarians are pointing fingers at people...
...guess it was personal and also societal. Personally, a trickle of insults became a flood. A skirt that had been just fine all of a sudden seemed inappropriately short. A liquor store clerk asked for ID and then laughed as if he had made a funny joke. I ran into a suspiciously fresh-faced friend and, when she confessed to Botox, I wanted to yell, "Hey, that's no fair!" Then I wanted to get some for myself. I thought I'd crossed that invisible but really visible line into middle age. And as a longtime journalist and social observer...
Another store clerk joined us. She offered her impression that Palin "was like a snake for some reason," but her co-worker admonished her to stop paying attention to "gossip. You can hear gossip about anyone." The younger clerk sort of shrugged and said she might not vote at all. "I think they need to face more up to the economy," she explained...