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...knew they were going to pull off this comeback.” You, a Red Sox fan? I refuse to believe it. You’re an all-American, with deep Midwestern roots. “Yeah man, I love it back home. I’ve got some heartland values and all that. But I’m living in Boston right now, and while I’m here, the Red Sox are one of my teams.” But you can’t let all these obnoxious Northeasterners get away with it! You?...
...Still, the heartland in Sindh remains a solid base of support. Despite the socialist platform of both Bhutto and her father, both are beneficiaries of an almost feudal system in Sindh, where landlords and tribal leaders dictate how their people vote. In keeping with this tradition, many of these voters don't question Benazir's judgment in cutting deals with Musharraf, or anything else. "If Benazir got a horse, and told people to vote for the horse," says 27-year-old Larkana shopkeeper Muhammad Ali Sheikh, "we would line up to vote for the horse...
Judging from the statistics, Michaels' fans aren't hard-bodies - not yet, anyway. More than 75% of visitors to her site are women between the ages of 25 and 54, who tend to live in America's heartland where residents count Cracker Barrel, Shoney's and Dairy Queen among their most frequented eating establishments...
...David Petraeus squinted into the Baghdad sun and allowed himself a moment of astonishment. "It's just amazing how quickly some of these tribes are flipping," he said. Amazing, indeed. Petraeus has presided over a remarkable turn of events in Iraq. The most recalcitrant areas of the country-the heartland of the Sunni insurgency-have suddenly become the most placid. The safest place for President George W. Bush to land when he visited Iraq on Labor Day was al-Asad air base in Anbar province; a year ago, a military-intelligence report said the province had been "lost...
...govern themselves. It has little or nothing to do with the country's Shi'ite majority. Indeed, the U.S. military has had comparatively little interaction with Shi'ites outside Baghdad during the occupation. That task was left to the British and other coalition forces stationed in the Shi'ite heartland down south...