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Booze is a huge part of French Quarter life; I hesitate to call it "culture," because the sheer number of dead-drunk people gets depressing quickly. In fact, if you want to turn yourself off liquor for good, take a slow walk down Bourbon Street on a Saturday night. You'll see everyone from stumbling frat boys to gassed grannies slurping and burping the ubiquitous hurricane - the fruity rum concoction supposedly invented in New Orleans during World War II. But if you're going to drink, I'd recommend the chocolatey, dangerously drinkable local brew called Abita Turbodog. Turbodog...
...Saturday the Coleman campaign accused Ritchie, who, like Franken, belongs to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor coalition, of "breaching neutrality" by saying that the State Canvassing Board would probably consider taking up the tossed absentee ballots. Ritchie has vowed to hold regular press conferences during the recount. "The whole world is watching to see if we're living up to our reputation as Minnesota - our brand," Ritchie says. "Accuracy is the only measurement by which we can determine who won this election." Ritchie does not expect the recount to be completed until at least Dec. 19. If the results...
...like ours, who only think of their own personal ambition of controlling the party, I don't see how we'll ever get back into power again," lamented Fouzia Benyoub, a Parti Socialiste (PS) member. Her glumness typified the mood at the party's 75th congress in Reims on Saturday. Many of the party's brightest lights seemed to be competing in the increasingly bitter battle for the position of first secretary, with an eye to launching a presidential bid of their own against Sarkozy in four years. And those who weren't were keeping busy dishing out venom...
...scene was surreal on Saturday evening, when supporters of the triad of challengers - Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë, 35-hour work-week architect Martine Aubry, and youthful left-winger Benoît Hamon - waged vocal battle with Royal's backers during her address, which was characteristically thin on concrete policies. Lusty waves of booing as Royal spoke were followed by standing ovations from her supporters; jeers unleashed by her calls for a coalition with centrists were quickly challenged by Royal supporters chanting...
...passions unleashed eventually spilled out of Reims' convention center and into town. Heading back to the city center as speeches wound down Saturday evening, one feisty PS dowager took an entire municipal bus to task. She harangued puzzled passengers about "this Socialist circus where everyone is so busy attacking everyone else that we leave the right in peace," before herself having a go at "the morons who back Royal instead of someone capable of advancing a real leftist program for once!" "I like Royal, and I'm not a moron," resisted a small, snowy-headed man who had also attended...