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...similar to the compromise legislation that was killed in Congress this spring. His plan, and its flourished delivery, won applause from the audience and a second look from Sandra Johnson, 54, of Washington, Iowa. "I'd ruled him out," Johnson said, sitting on a bale of hay that served as seating at the Soapbox arena. "But I realize now he's got a lot of experience as a governor of a border state. It gives him more credibility on the issue." The question for Richardson is whether he has enough of it to win support from two sides that rarely...
...social science is a basic uneasiness on the American side of the pond about forcing individuals into any sort of public conformity. In a country where a single religion, Christianity, is overwhelmingly dominant, and where governments dabble in “faith-based initiatives” to make political hay, it’s understandable that one would recoil at policies meant to subdue difference. What would become of the United States, after all, if the apparatus of the state, controlled by the “Christian right,” were endowed with the power to quash any form...
...because campaigning in the state is surrounded by such a delicious coating of Americana. Candidates speechify in town squares as skeptical grandparents listen intently and clear-eyed children squirm. Farmers sip coffee in diners as would-be Presidents just happen to amble in. It's all square dancers and hay bales and long, straight roads through amber waves of grain...
Struggling to regain its edge in the playoff race, the team hit the road hoping for success against NYU and eventual Hay Division champion NJIT. But its powerful opponents swept Harvard under the rug, knocking the Crimson out of contention for postseason competition...
...wide-tip marker obliterated an entire Kansas town with winds over 200 m.p.h. Days later, when President George W. Bush arrived to dispense hugs and sympathy, he found scarcely a roof still on four walls. Not a leaf left clinging to a tree. Lumber scraps lay strewn like hay behind a boisterous hayride...