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...this is not a story about overnight success. For one thing, Edwards is 48, which pretty much disqualifies her from child prodigy-hood. For another, she was already successful. She's a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her short stories have garnered her a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award, among many others. She's a professor at the University of Kentucky. Her writing already made her a living. It just hadn't made her famous...
...This battle is far from over, and the movement make take even more hits. Other marriage decisions are currently pending in the high courts of Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland and California. A New Jersey state supreme court is expected to issue its ruling later this summer...
Damascus is my favorite Middle Eastern city. I love it not only for what locals call in English its "touristic" qualities, but also for the ones that remind me of my home in Iowa: both societies share an appreciation for tight-knit families and lifetime friendships; socially conservative "family values"; and traditional comfort foods, with shish taouk and mezze standing in for the steak and salad dinners that dominated Iowa's menus when I was a child...
Nothing elicits the game-time buzz of an incipient Presidential contest like the mid-winter trek through Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states to weigh in on the nominating contest. But political junkies will have to adjust their thermostats for 2008. At a meeting July 22, the Democrats are set to revamp their voting calendar, and some big changes are likely. Members of the Democratic committee in charge of the schedule say they will add a southwestern and a southern state to the early caucus and primary schedule. Iowa's caucus will remain first on the campaign schdule...
...Democratic Party, though, there are big advantages to the new schedule. It is meant to expand the pool of voters who have an early, and often definitive, say in who the candidate will be. Iowa and New Hampshire are small, northern and largely white; the new states to be added are intended to broaden the field and bring Hispanics and blacks into the process. Once reliably Republican, the Southwest is increasingly becoming a bloc of swing states, crucial to Democratic hopes for the White House. Officially, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada are all in the running for the Sun Belt spot...