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...Commander in Chief. Second, he confronted head-on the false rumors that he is a Muslim or refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. And third, his choice of venues was telling: semirural, mostly white areas where many voters have been skeptical of his candidacy. "Obama will never win rural America in the fall, but this is about margins," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Rural voters like to judge candidates up close and personal. The more they see of Obama, the less strange and foreign he will become. The acceptability quotient...
...Queer Pride marches for a couple of years now, but this was the first in Delhi, considered more conservative than some of its metro sisters. Unlike the mostly university-educated, urban crowd that marched in Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore's marches attract people from all classes as well as rural areas...
...Thaksin effect pleases rural voters, who were charmed by the former P.M.'s populist health-care and micro-financing policies. But members of Bangkok's middle class and élite, many of whom were angered by a tax-free $1.9 billion business deal that Thaksin and his family profited from while he was in office, are rather less happy. The military, which went to the trouble of toppling him in 2006, surely is also irate over Thaksin's lingering shadow. (Thaksin himself has said he's done with politics, although his avowals have been rather less strenuous of late...
...weaver, seamstress, candlemaker, goat farmer and gardener. Children's-book illustrator Tasha Tudor, who died on June 18 at age 92 at her home in rural Vermont, was a master of rusticity. But first she was a painter, bringing to life scenes of nature and children inspired by her beloved New England...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THE BOOK THE SETUP WHY IT'S GOOD FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE ... THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE By David Wroblewski Hamlet, basically, but set in rural Wisconsin and starring a mute boy who breeds dogs It's a big-hearted piece of old-school storytelling that feels short at 566 pages A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. And who love--or tolerate--dogs PERSONAL DAYS By Ed Park Some office drones work at a moribund company. That's really all Park...