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...Forth" column quotes CNN President Jon Klein as saying of the press coverage of Palin, "I don't think anybody expected the news media to just sit there and accept the Norman Rockwell painting. That's not our job." The news media did exactly that for Barack Obama. Richard Laxton, Bowraville, New South Wales...
Taproot tailors the volunteer efforts of its business experts to fit their lives. Each volunteer agrees to work five hours a week on a five-month project with a five-member team, each providing pro bono the same service that he provides for paying clients. Taproot member Candice Laxton, 54, a creative director in Menlo Park, Calif., helped produce a brochure for SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments), an advocacy group for abused women. Laxton is typical of many boomers who, in earlier years, put some of their youthful activism on hold while establishing careers and families...
...gone now, and the town's businesses consist mainly of a coal company store, a bank, two coin laundries, an AMC-Jeep dealership, Wanda's Beauty Shop, Roberts Motel and a Montgomery Ward catalogue office. "We have no bars, no parking meters and no coloreds," says Frank Laxton Jr., a used-car dealer and Oceana's mayor...
...Mileage. In Sparta, Wis., Dealer William Laxton, trying to sell a used TV set to a customer, said: "Now here's a set in excellent condition. It was owned by a little old lady with weak eyes...
...cast stay pretty well within the confines of the script. Their acting is spirited, and a credit to themselves and to director Peter Temple, who comes as close to making the play live as possible. Especially engaging are Jerry Kilty as Trap Door, the scoundrel, and Robert Fletcher as Laxton, the lecher. Many of the minor characters are also amusing caricatures of London town-types; one of these is Jack Dapper, the fop, played by Nick Benton (who turns up again...