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...corn-fed hybrid of East and West along the I-64 corridor. About half of Toyota's top 100 executives in the U.S. are American. And there are about 50 Japanese in the 6,500 person work force at the Georgetown plant. At the Tachibana sushi bar in nearby Lexington, Kentucky, manager Takashi Iwata serves raw fish to Japanese diners as well as to locals raised on burgers and barbecued ribs. "I am happiest when I have customers in cowboy shirts using chopsticks," Iwata says. "But to tell you the truth, my ancestors would be shocked...
Johnathan Prevette met the world last week, and the world--or at least plenty of TV crews--beat a path to his door, in the town of Lexington, North Carolina (pop. 16,583). Once there, they heard the alarming tale--as Johnathan and his parents told it--of the first-grader at Southwest Elementary who planted a kiss on a classmate's cheek, partly because he liked her and partly, he said, because she asked him to. But a teacher saw him, the girl complained, and Johnathan was disciplined by being barred from his class for a day, causing...
...week got even worse for Southwest Elementary. On Friday the school had to be evacuated after a bomb threat was received. That prompted the Prevettes to issue a statement urging "people to please keep supporting our family, but only in positive ways." James Simeon, superintendent of the Lexington City Schools, said in a statement that he had met with the Prevettes and in response to their request was "working on an age-appropriate revision of our policy...
...crowd shown in your photograph of Elizabeth Dole giving a speech at the opening of the Dole-Kemp headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky [CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK, Sept. 16]. We did not get "soaked," as you stated, only sprinkled on. When showers began, Elizabeth Dole quickly assessed the situation and graciously walked off the stage and to the back of a steamy room to give everyone a chance to hear about Bob Dole's straightforward and honest goals. We outside were rained on a bit, and those inside cooked in the heat while Elizabeth Dole sailed through both the showers and the heat...
...might respond with a hearty "Whatever," until you recall we are talking about what is known, in candidate lingo, as "the greatest country on earth." If this were Liechtenstein or Togo, maybe a little apathy would be in order. But it's another matter when the heirs of Lexington and Valley Forge come to find their communal affairs so repellent...