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...Veterans of Foreign Wars, Anderson led a rally that wasn't subtle at all in its critiques. Nor was it filled with a bunch of young radicals; some of those in attendance were actually veterans themselves. "Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism," Anderson told the crowd. "A patriot does not tell people to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; or to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering human-rights-violating president...
...local bakery, wondering why the doors were locked and the stone oven cold. Fifteen minutes later, when it became clear there would be no bread that day, people began speculating why a bakery that has been open every weekday for literally decades should mysteriously be shut. The small crowd swiftly concluded the worst: the Iranian government had sent all the country's flour to Lebanon...
...Sale" signs can be daunting (one in three houses, by some estimates), speculators are moving in to buy property - sometimes a whole block at a time - with the classically American conviction that this devastation is a buyer's market not to be missed. "It's the young crowd - 20-, 30- and 40-year-olds who are coming back and making things happen in New Orleans," says Ragan confidently. She should know; a 40-something, she's one of them...
...showed in the eloquent words he spoke. After opening a new science laboratory in the Senator Obama-Kogelo Secondary School, Obama addressed a gathered crowd and recalled his first trip. "Even though I had grown up on the other side of the world and even though I did not have a day-to-day connection, when I came here I felt the spirit among the people who told me that I belonged." Obama clearly feels that same sense of belonging to this small Kenyan village, even if so many more people, both in Africa and back home...
...rural area along the shores of Lake Victoria, Obama and his wife, Michelle, were both tested for HIV, a powerful statement in a country whose leaders often talk about the need for regular testing but rarely lead the way. "You need to know your status," Obama told a surging crowd of hundreds of locals. "If a U.S. Senator can get tested and his wife can get tested, then everybody in this crowd can get tested. Everybody in this city can get tested." "It is good he did this, it shows people how important it is," says Kisumu resident Bernard Otieno...