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It's the independence day parade in Amherst, N.H., and John Forbes Kerry, the elegant Senator from Massachusetts, is wearing a button-down, long-sleeve tattersall shirt, khaki pants and topsiders. He is surrounded by about 100 supporters, many of them young people toting signs. There is a Kerry truck...
Other candidates-Joe Lieberman, Bob Graham-are in the parade, but you would hardly know it. This event is mano a mano: Kerry vs. Dr. Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont. Dean has about the same number of supporters as Kerry-but they're younger, more enthusiastic and much...
Beware of parade metaphors. And yet ... Kerry jogging artfully, Dean running artlessly-that's pretty much where the race stands in New Hampshire these days. There are other candidates and other states. Congressman Dick Gephardt has support in Iowa and could easily win the nomination, especially if Kerry and Dean...
By the end of his life, he had contributed to the building funds of each and every sect in Philadelphia, including £5 for the Congregation Mikveh Israel for its new synagogue in April 1788. During the July 4 celebrations that year, he was too sick to leave his bed...
Throughout Gulag, hallucinatory images pop out of the page: the "café" set up in Kengir camp by a Polish count at the height of most famous prison uprising in 1954. The members of a religious sect who, during the same uprising, sat on mattresses in the parade ground, waiting...