Word: mamou
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...Haiti from abroad] appreciably drops," admits Elizabeth Spehar, who has been working with the Special Mission and Electoral Technical Assistance Program of the OAS in Haiti. "We dump money into elections, then get distracted so that every ten years there's another crisis. The election is the big mamou. It's the starting point, but if you just leave it at that you're doomed...
...have clubs run by head skippers, and group skips are coordinated through a website, iskip.com Upcoming events include a tax-day skip in Seattle on April 15 and a skip in New York City's Central Park in May. Corbin hopes to skip across the country to (where else?) Mamou...
...nine in the morning, and Fred's Lounge is packed. please do not stand on the tables, chairs, cigarette machines, booths and juke-box! warns the sign on the wall of the tiny, bunker-like tavern on the main street of Mamou, Louisiana. Despite the early hour-the club is open just one day a week, Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.-the all-white crowd is washing down breakfasts of spicy boudin with cold, long-necked beers. As the onlookers tap their toes and stamp their feet, bandleader Don Thibodeaux, backed by an accordion, steel guitar, fiddle, drums...
...midafternoon the riders were listing seriously. All they had to do was make it back to Mamou still able to function minimally. There the girls would join them on the backs of their steeds, and they could have gumbo, and they could dance until midnight. The lesson seemed to be: get drunk, hunt chickens, eat well, kiss the dickens out of pretty girls, straighten your deportment the next day, assume your place among your fellow...
There was only one casualty, a boy named Tim who lost the knack of sitting his horse. A police officer turned Tim over to a van full of out-of-town celebrants headed back to Mamou and turned his horse over to another rider. Tim said he had had eleven beers. In town the boy's mother saw her child slumped in a car packed with strangers. "Tim," she shouted with alarm, "what are you doing in there...