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...most measures, Minong, Wis., is anything but cosmopolitan. It is a town of 520 people in the north woods, too small to have a movie theater or even a stoplight. Yet it is the home of a genuine multinational: Link Snacks, Inc., which rings up export sales of as much as $12 million a year to more than a dozen countries and stations sales representatives in Tokyo, Moscow and Regina, Saskatchewan, as well as Minneapolis, Minn. Not bad, considering 1) the company was in Chapter 11 only 10 years ago; and 2) its products--meat snacks, especially beef jerky...
...turned himself in to Washington, D.C. police Thursday to face charges that his drunken driving caused the death of a 16-year-old girl earlier this year. Cruising through busy downtown streets at speeds up to 85 mph, Makharadze had careened into a line of cars waiting at a stoplight on Connecticut Avenue, setting off a fatal chain reaction. If found guilty of manslaughter, the 35-year-old diplomat could spend the next 30 years in a U.S. prison, with the possibility of an additional 40 year penalty for injuries caused to others. In a move no less damaging...
Castellanos is no stranger to exile. Born in Havana, he fled Castro's revolution with his parents in 1961 at age 6. They settled in Coats, North Carolina, which had 1,000 residents and one stoplight with only two colors. Castellanos attended the University of North Carolina but dropped out in his final semester to work on Ronald Reagan's 1976 campaign...
...scenes are political-family gothic that read as if Tennessee Williams had written them. While riding on the campaign trail, the congressional candidate and his wife get into a screaming match in the car. He punches the dashboard; she slaps the seat. At a stoplight, she suddenly leaps out, and the car roars away. In another scene, years later, a guest in the politician's home overhears him singing a lullaby to his one-year-old daughter: ``I want a div- or-or-or-orce. I want a div-or-or-or-orce.'' The Governor raises the subject of divorce...
...were all sorts of ugly, irksome questions about Smith's story. No crimes had been reported in the area that night -- so why would a suspect be fleeing? If he needed a car to make a getaway, why take the kids? She said he had approached her at a stoplight, with no one else around; but that particular light required another auto approaching the intersection to turn it red. Above all, where was the damn...