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This year, however, Hamilton is up for grabs. Nestled in the southwestern corner of Ohio, where table-flat corn and wheat fields abruptly give way to hilltops, Cincinnati overlooks Kentucky from its perch above the Ohio River. "It's really two cities," says Dorothy Weil, 78, whose husband chaired the local Democratic Party two decades ago, "the East and the West." Culturally and politically, the West Side closely resembles its Kentucky neighbors and is dotted with working-class Catholic towns where people still place one another by asking which parochial high school they attended. Across town is the East Side...
...benevolent wisdom, a glow that the Pulitzer Prize bestows on all its recipients. I was going to take a peek at Suskind’s author photo, but then I remembered that incandescent wisdom-auras can’t be photographed. They can only be basked in. HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED: WHY WE NEED A GREEN REVOLUTION—AND HOW IT CAN RENEW AMERICA by Thomas L. Friedman The painting that stretches across the top and bottom thirds of this hardback is the middle panel of “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a 16th...
...move among them, to hear their stories and their gripes. "My gut feeling is we're going to get a change of government," he says. Williams hopes his feeling is right. He respects Clark - he once watched her in a meeting "cut through the bulls... in no time flat" - and voted Labour in 2005. "But not this time," he says. "The place needs an overhaul. They're turning the place into a nanny state. The idea bank is drying...
...lower: ever the ambitious young upstart, I accrued 30 generic applications at even more generic establishments only to have the majority swallowed up and effectively lost forever in some pile on an assistant supervisor’s desk. Occasionally I would hear back, but the response was invariably a flat rejection or, once, a confused call from a hardware store clerk who inexplicably assumed I came with Y chromosomes and could lift 200 lbs. I was so desperate at this point I tried to play along, but eventually he found me out.Enter IceScapes Italian Ice & Frozen Treats, a modest joint...
Nearly every student organization has, at some point or another, engaged in the Harvard tradition of postering—an early morning marathon of sorts that consists of running from one flat surface to another, sheaves of paper in hand. As members of a scholarly community, we all benefit from these posters—regardless of whether we agree with a particular student group’s aims. Thus, the news that the posters of Harvard Right to Life (HRL) were being subjected to “serious and persistent instances of vandalism” was cause for concern...