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...chosen one was Cory Booker, then a Newark, N.J., city councilman. He ultimately lost a close race against Mayor Sharpe James after Booker was accused of not being "black enough." At the Democratic Convention this summer, Booker walked into the hall and encountered a group of admirers. "One of them said I should be Vice President. I said I thought that might be going a little too far." One woman took out her camera and asked, "Could I take your picture, Mr. Obama?" Booker laughs as he tells the story. "I said, 'Ma'am, there's more than one sexy...
...race. In the town of Portsmouth in Ohio's depressed southeastern corner, the turnout was high when President Bush visited last month. He was, after all, the first President that Portsmouth's citizens had seen in person since Herbert Hoover in 1932. Thousands cheered Kerry at his rally in Newark, the seat of Licking County. They were celebrating what local records said was the first visit to the town by a presidential candidate since William Henry Harrison came in 1840. Kerry skipped Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech before Congress on Sept. 23 to spend some quality time with...
Take, for example, Pauline Cotnoir, 82, who last year decided to sell the house in Newark, Del., where she and her husband had raised eight children. Eager to move to Sunrise Senior Living in nearby Wilmington and also to help her daughter and son-in-law, Jacqueline and Peter Hannaford, who had lived with her for eight years, Cotnoir offered the couple the chance to buy the 1920s colonial for 80% of the fair market value. "Essentially my mother gifted us the equivalent of a 20% down payment," says Jacqueline, 37, "which helped us a lot financially." Cotnoir...
...America in which Lindbergh, an isolationist in real life, defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become the 33rd President of the United States of America. Armed with that premise, Roth takes readers on a harrowing safari across interdimensional borders into a bizarro version of his hometown, mid-century Newark, N.J., where we encounter Roth's own family and Roth himself as a child, living under the Lindbergh Administration. "My little rubric that I would recite to myself," Roth says, "was 'Don't invent it, remember...
DATA GATHERED Terrorists conducted heavy surveillance of the parking garage beneath the structure in Newark, N.J. They noted the repeated entry of black limos but doubted whether trucks and vans would be allowed in. Reports include extensive information on the New Jersey Transit and PATH passenger-rail systems, maps of the network and train timetables...