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Wearing exactly zero cowboy hats between them, they said goodbye to the stranger, shook his hand, and accepted his offer of luck. Not that they needed...
...story completely, and he distrusted and disliked blacks. However, the ambitious justice also saw an opportunity to advance his own career. Instead of holding summary executions or judge-decided trials, as was normal when dealing with slaves, Horsmanden organized jury trials before the Supreme Court. (He was no stranger to taking advantage of situations: he married a rich widow in her 70s when he was 54 to escape debt...
...cases, they wouldn't be able to stay due to factors like toxic house mold. "Nagin just put us in a very bad situation," says Brenda Davis, 44, a resident of the Algiers district across the river from the French Quarter. She, her daughter and four grandchildren paid a stranger $220 to drive them from their evacuee housing back to New Orlean-only to find their home unlivable and with no transportation to get back out. "It was too soon," says Davis. "He should have made sure everything was right before he told us to come back...
...calling the state G.O.P. "morally wrong and politically stupid" for its shoddy treatment of Latino candidates. Jim Lopez, state chairman for the Republican National Hispanic Assembly and an Arnold booster, said of those who signed the letter, "If these folks wanted miracles, maybe they should have elected St. Augustine." Stranger people have made it into office. --By Jeffrey Ressner
Meeting Audrey, my quasi mother, was even stranger. Tilda Swinton had a Scottish accent in her trailer but spoke like a born American when the cameras were turned on. Her performance was so convincing that when the actors took time out for lunch, I found myself confiding in her about a romantic breakup I was suffering through. Writing autobiographical fiction, it's often said, is therapeutic for a novelist, but it's nothing compared with spilling one's guts to a live human being who is posing as one's parent...