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...This cuts close to the real contrast between Dole and Bush: the small-town entrepreneur vs. the no-fingerprints manager. Bush's strengths are in precisely those areas that elude Dole, such as organizational competence. That was evident on Friday in Michigan, where the Bush forces teamed up with Kemp's to outmaneuver Robertson at the Republican state convention. Bush wound up with 37 disputed delegates and Kemp with 32, while Robertson's supporters cried foul and walked out after getting only 8. Dole skipped the contest...
While the idea of a store so big seems quintessentially American, the idea for hypermarkets comes from France. A small-town haberdasher and a grocer, taking advantage of their country's lack of American-style supermarkets, teamed up in 1960 to start the first hypermarket at an intersection just outside Annecy, in the foothills of the Alps. They named their store Carrefour, the French word for crossroads, and it was an instant success. Their prices were so low that shoppers expected them to go out of business, a rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash...
...plays that tower over American drama -- Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night -- Our Town is at once the most universally familiar and the most widely misunderstood. Audiences tend to recall Wilder's glimpse of small-town, turn-of-the-century New Hampshire as sweet, sentimental, nostalgic and funny. It was all those things. But it was also -- and remains, 50 years after its first public performances in January 1938 -- groundbreakingly unconventional in form and chafingly unsettling...
...around the rule, officials in Gephardt's Iowa organization secretly enlisted a small-town newspaper publisher to serve as a front man and paid local residents $20 an hour in cash to distribute and collect the ballots. Keith Dinsmore, Gephardt's Iowa communications director, cut the deal with Ken Robinson, publisher of the tiny (circ. 1,500) Bayard News. At a late-afternoon dress rehearsal at the Starlite Village hotel, adjacent to the auditorium, Robinson sat quietly while Dinsmore instructed Drake University students and a handful of other paid recruits on how to poll the 8,000 Democrats expected...
...lackey of U.S. imperialism. Said Opposition Senator Juan Ponce Enrile: "The N.P.A. will say, 'We're only fighting American imperialists. So why is the Philippine government shooting at us?' " The local elections scheduled for Jan. 18 are bound to be violent. For one thing, minor rivalries between small-town politicos could turn into bloody feuds multiplied hundreds of times over across the country. For another, N.P.A.-supported candidates are expected to run, coming into certain conflict with the vigilantes...