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Devlin and Tulloch finished first and second, respectively, at the New England Women’s Singlehanded Championships held at the Coast Guard in New London, Conn., last Sunday...
...this - to show that he's one of the people - but he's doing it in a peculiarly Australian way, using the vernacular and mundane experiences to connect. Last February, when he began a series of community forums ("democracy in the raw," he calls it) at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, N.S.W., Latham immediately caught the temper of the crowd. How wonderful it was to be back in "God's own country," he said. The people of the "Coast" lapped it up; this line wasn't crafted by a spin doctor or slipped in by a local party...
...back and forth on record, gaining publicity while insulting each other, before ultimately calling on someone else seeking publicity to broker a peace. Nelly, though, doesn't battle. "In Midwest hip-hop, we just don't do it," he says. "It's not our forte like the East Coast. We aren't trying to mess with anybody. It makes no sense, and it makes no dollars, either. With [KRS], I was just like, 'Yo, B, I don't even know you. What is your beef with me? Call me up, tell me what's wrong. Let's talk...
...West Coast contingent lunches together every few months, and on the East Coast, many live within driving distance of one another. Heywood (Woody) Broad and Leonard (Lenny) Kulick live with their families in neighboring communities in Florida, where many of the others head in winter. Several get together each New Year's Eve in Boca Raton, and when widower Broad, a supplier for nursing homes, remarried in 2002, Bronx Boys flew in from all over the country for the wedding...
Living 3,000 miles apart means that this grandmother and her grandsons don't have to deal with day-to-day, in-your-face religious differences. During a recent visit to the West Coast, however, Mann heard her 10year-old grandson ask, "Is Grandpa Catholic?" No, she explained, he's Jewish. "I'm Catholic, and I'm going to stay that way," the boy replied. Mann wasn't worried. "He was simply making a statement," she says. "It wasn't self-righteous or malicious, just a statement about...