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...Toomey exploded all over the map," one observer remarked...
...Ethiopia's much vaunted turn toward democracy is a genuine renunciation of years of Marxism or just a good sales pitch. The government careens from one crisis to the next -- banditry in the east, smuggling in the west, demobilization of Mengistu's army -- with no road map to guide it. Where most of black Africa has opted to quell tribal rivalry by imposing strict one-party rule, Meles has embarked on a daring multiparty experiment that acknowledges ethnic differences. But many of the country's 70- odd ethnic groups continue to view one another over the barrels of the guns...
...Angeles suburb of Glendora, entrepreneur Keith Porchia cheerfully dons a hard hat to check on the progress of the 51-unit apartment complex he is developing. In Winter Springs, Fla., Sheelah Ryan, a retired real estate agent, meets with the board of the Ryan Foundation to map programs for what she calls "the new poor." Somewhere in southern Atlantic waters, Anthony Palermo, formerly of the U.S. Navy, cruises with his family aboard his own yacht, joyfully named Picked...
Students of the electoral map describe a game plan that sees Cuomo avoiding G.O.P. regional strongholds as he exploits the weaknesses apparent from Bush's 1988 victory. The first targeted group is the 10 states plus the District of Columbia that Michael Dukakis won in 1988, which would give Cuomo 110 electoral votes. He could pick up 99 more by capturing the three large states Bush narrowly won in 1988: California, where the President got 51.1%, and Pennsylvania and Illinois, where he squeaked by with...
Chase County, Kans., writes William Trogdon, "is the most easterly piece of the American Far West." Meaning what? And who, for that matter, is Trogdon, whose name does not appear on the title page of his extraordinary and wholly original new book, PrairyErth (a deep map)? What's prairyerth...