Word: michigan
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...from - gasp! - California. The point of eating locally is to become more familiar with our food. It's nice to hear a farmer say that my rib-eye steak came from a cow that ate local pasture grass rather than a corn-and-antibiotic slurry. Ben Kraft, Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...postcolonial leaders. And developed countries like the U.S. are not half as enthusiastic about a stable democratic Africa as they are about forging partnerships against terrorism and for their multinational corporations. Rich nations are very much a part of the demons that haunt Africa. Mark Evans Ondari, East Lansing, Michigan...
...McCain has what author and friend Michael Lewis once described as "a love of actual risk" that is "freakish" in a politician. Before the Michigan primary, he told voters in the economically ravaged state that lost auto-industry jobs "aren't coming back," a dose of undiluted straight talk that probably cemented his loss there to Romney. And no sooner had he arrived in Florida than he declared himself opposed to a costly national catastrophic-insurance bill that is widely backed by Sunshine State voters and supported by Florida's popular Republican governor, Charlie Crist, whose endorsement McCain covets...
...honor will not get Huckabee the nomination. As the calendar flies by, the states get bigger and even more costly, putting his shoestring campaign under increasing pressure. And Huckabee is still struggling to appeal beyond his evangelical base. In two states now, Michigan and South Carolina, his message of economic populism has failed to make substantial inroads...
...After a distant third-place finish in Iowa, Thompson took sixth in New Hampshire, garnering just 1% of the vote. In Michigan and Nevada he placed fifth, and in South Carolina, a state where he'd invested the bulk of his time and energy outside of Iowa, Thompson was a distant third with 16% of the vote. His non-concession-concession speech - in which many pundits wryly noted that Thompson never looked happier - left many scratching their heads, wondering if he was dropping out or pushing on. He, in fact, said only that he planned on taking a break...