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Picking a theme is key for Waters. Her most recent reunion revolved around a family-treasures motif. It included wall-to-wall beach-party decor throughout the weekend--colorful lanterns, beach chairs under umbrellas and a kids' beanbag toss. The highlight of the event is the family-pride awards. The nominees are culled from among family members, and the awards can be given for anything from making the honor roll to graduating from college to baking the best pies. Last year, a cousin who had lost her mother several years earlier nominated matriarch Annie Butler, 86, for a family-pride...
...biggest story will be the fact that this election will be boring, without spark, and in the end the votes will reflect a coin toss - 50/50. It will no doubt be very close as one candidate attempts to buy more votes than the other with promises that are not only illogical but foolish. A little more than half the American electorate will choose one brand of snake oil while not actually reading their candidate's platform. Devon Kruggel Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER He had barely finished one campaign--the Terminator 3 junket--when he began another, his bid to become California's Governor. Cue the sneering. And indeed the recall election began as a 250-candidate, porn-star-and--Gary Coleman circus. But voters warmed to Schwarzenegger's toss-the-bastards theme, and he helped inspire a 20% increase in turnout. In the early hours of Oct. 8, he stood alone as the decisive victor...
...years later, musicians formed the Subway Arts Guild, which set in place provisions for performance. Musicians would receive a free permit every 90 days and would claim venues on a first-come-first-serve basis (excluding the Harvard Square station, for which they vied by coin toss), according to Ingram...
Attempts at creative writing involve many time-honored traditions: staring at blank sheets of paper (blank virtual sheets of paper, these days); typing out a few tentative words, only to cringe and toss them away; getting angry at people who read the final draft and don’t sense all the brilliant, subtly wrought miracles of language. Ever since that conversation with my blockmate, though, I’ve begun to notice another quality of the writing process that I hadn’t really considered: unabashed navel-gazing...