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...When we joined the Rocky crowd, our friends who hadn’t known the code looked at their own white skirt and plaid shorts, and seemed miffed. We were more familiar with Longchamp and Lacoste than...
...small town in Kenya's lush Rift Valley, arrows are scattered around a dusty, hay-littered compound. Men in plaid-checkered shirts construct bows and say they were forced to arm themselves for war. "We were using swords but they were not effective," says Sylvester, 24, slashing a knife in the air. "In a day we can make between 80 and 100 [arrows]," he adds, refusing to give his last name out of fear. Community members pool money together to buy the necessary tools in secret; the arrows are then distributed within the neighborhood. Local leaders know about the arrow...
...Mitt Romney, the one-time frontrunner with deep pockets. The ballroom at Huckabee's headquarters at the Embassy Suites had already burst into cheers: "We like Mike! We like Mike! We like Mike!" Before long, the candidate emerged, backed by his most photogenic supporter, Chuck Norris, in brown lumberjack plaid, to soak up the moment and warn of the long road ahead...
...little ire. The same lament comes up over seared ahi again and again, from the Hamptons to La Jolla: Why should a few pig farmers decide who gets to be president? I, suburbanite, felt myself slipping last week into precisely this rut as I watched a man in plaid saying, yes, he planned to caucus, as long as he could catch a bowl game around noon. This fellow, to whom circumstance had bequeathed great decisive power, was prepared to allow one among a plethora of meaningless college football tournaments (who even wants to win the Chick-fil-A Bowl...
...words of Saint Paul emblazoned on one of their signs, “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” Nathan Tyler, a diminutive man in a plaid shirt, stood on a stepladder with a Bible in one hand and a megaphone in the other gamely fielding questions from an angry crowd on topics from evolution—“It’s against the Bible, and it doesn’t conform to science...