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When I was young, my family would spend the summer in Long Beach Island (LBI), a half-mile-wide tourist haven in Ocean County, New Jersey. My memories of LBI are of miniature golf, of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream cones, and of long walks along the sand with my parents. Consider this along with—though my Irish name does its best to obfuscate it—my Sicilian heritage, and I’m perhaps as entitled as anyone to be offended by MTV’s “Jersey Shore...
Virginia Velez, BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WASH...
...know, own that podium. And after the organization has spent $62 million in government funds to fine-tune the Canadian Olympic machine, Jackson's jocks had better deliver. What will happen if they don't fulfill his gold guarantee? "I'm going to try to find the quietest little island," says Jackson, "so that no one can find me." Surely, Canada would want to take out its pent-up aggression...
Honey Marques drives a white pickup truck with a bumper sticker, "Defend Liberty, Defeat Tyranny." But she is not a drive-by supporter. Marques, 34, is the president of the Scottsdale group and has been a devout conservative since discovering Rush Limbaugh while growing up on the Hawaiian island of Maui. She says, "We want limited government, fiscal responsibility, free-market principles and transparency. We are tired of government taking over our freedom." Marques, who attended the huge September 2009 Tea Party rally in Washington, believes that Obama's oratory and agenda will push the nation closer to socialism...
...corner and crush the rebels, resulting in thousands of deaths among the 300,000 civilians stranded in the combat zone. Despite claiming an overwhelming majority in the Jan. 26 vote, Rajapaksa fared less well in the north and the east - areas that are home to most of the island's Tamil population. Though the Tamil minority is fearful of how it will be treated by the man who crushed its hopes of a homeland, during his speech following the election results, he said, "I am the President of those who voted for me and those who did not." (See TIME...