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...Battlegrounds Hamilton County, Ohio
Both McCain and Obama expected hand-to-hand combat in Ohio as the 2008 campaign drew to a close. But Hamilton County, which includes and surrounds Cincinnati, was never in anyone's battle plan. Over the past 100 years, its voters have backed the Democratic presidential candidate only four times. The county has been such unfriendly territory for Democrats that former Ohio governor John Gilligan, a Cincinnati native, once famously remarked that, "they hunt Democrats with dogs for sport in Hamilton County...
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...
Urban fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic fantasy. Call it what you will, but the immensely popular genre most recently featured in HBO's True Blood owes everything to Laurell K. Hamilton, who launched her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter character 15 years ago. Hamilton has since started another series, starring faerie queen Merry Gentry. She talked to TIME about sex in America, acting as therapist for fans, and why she became a Wiccan...
...live in operates. “What is real is like nectar,” Suskind said, “and how do we arrive at evidence that alters our assumptions and helps us access the world as it is?” Law School student Nathan P. Hamilton said that though he did not agree with all of Suskind’s points, he appreciated his hopeful message. “This kind of took a step back and made us realize that despite our sometimes great ideological differences as Americans, and to a large extent with people outside...