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Even at the Democratic convention, I thought: hours milling about the floor, tripping over balloons, beer with the delegate from Kansas who would tell me what the Bush administration’s done to hurt the wheat farmers. Without leaving the hall, I would have gone to Louisiana, Oklahoma, Oregon...
DEMOCRATS: Behind-the-scenes photos of Kerry's big moment at the Democratic Convention
...Sept. 11, declared the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks in its 567-page report, the "United States became a nation transformed." From the shipyards of Seattle to the conventioneer-stuffed ballrooms of Boston, the scramble to prepare for the possibility of another attack offered a panorama last week of the country's metamorphosis. Police divers in the Port of Seattle combed the hulls of cruise ships for explosive devices. The Secret Service ordered that all food deliveries to Boston's Fleet Center, site of the Democratic National Convention, be tested for radioactive material. In Hennepin County, Minn., 2,500 government...
Brianna Nascimiento and Jianna Garcia of suburban Brentwood, N.Y., had just flown halfway across the country to drum up interest in their burgeoning handcrafted jewelry business. The partners wore tailored black pantsuits befitting the successful entrepreneur. But they weren't in Chicago to meet with potential investors or customers. Standing...
When asked if they planned to become homemakers, the bead entrepreneurs wrinkled their noses. Brianna wants to be a lawyer and Jianna, a marine biologist. But their ambitions have not deterred them from becoming active in the group founded 59 years ago as Future Homemakers of America (FHA). In 1999...