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Richard Jewell sprang his dog last week. After what his ever present media watchers described as a high-speed ride to the kennel, he fetched her home, and the stop-and-go progress of the spooked Doberman and bulky owner across the Jewell front lawn was deemed sufficiently fascinating to make the nightly news. Jewell had apparently decided that it was inhumane to keep a canine accused of no wrongdoing indefinitely in close quarters, with limited exercise and under constant watch of strangers...
...high and low points of Dole's campaign to date are nearly impossible to explain without some archaeology into the soil he sprang from and the paths he traveled to get here. We all have the defects of our qualities. In Dole's case, the very traits that help account for his successes--the cutting wit, the stubborn independence, the refusal to ask for help even when stakes are highest--also produced the more horrible moments of this campaign, when he seemed to be running for some other office in some other century on some other planet. Ultimately, says...
...civic Cassandras are also off-base about the origins of America's social capital. Local barn raisings have never been strictly local. While many conservative thinkers have suggested that America's traditional associations sprang up like indigenous flowers from the soil of American goodness, the recent Oval Office handshakes serve as a reminder that Washington has always been a conspirator in grass-roots organizing. As sociologist Theda Skocpol has written, many of the U.S.'s most cherished volunteer associations, such as the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities, worked side by side with government. Conservatives have lamented...
...Bedford's whaling industry made it the wealthiest city, per capita, in the nation. As the whaling died out, the city, like most of its neighbors in the Northeast, began to focus on the tremendous textile industry. All over New England, towns like Lowell, Lawrence and Fall River sprang up around the new mills that were pumping out cotton cloth...
...would no doubt chalk the performance up to Dole's "addiction to tobacco money," but no stack of dollars--not even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole sprang on himself last week. Off-camera, things were just as surreal. Dole was being stalked by a 7-ft.-tall cigarette named Mr. Butt Man, a Democrat who wheezes and coughs while passing out fake $1 bills emblazoned with a caricature of "Smokin' Bob Dole...