Word: townes
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...issue that may dog Specter is health care. In two town-hall meetings this month, he has been confronted by angry constituents who claim the current proposal in Congress tramples on their constitutional rights. At a particularly turbulent meeting in Lebanon, Pa., on Tuesday, one man yelled that "One day God is going to judge you and the rest of your damn cronies on the Hill." But it's not clear that voter anger over health-care reform will help the challenger either - Sestak is himself an outspoken backer of President Obama's efforts to reform the health-care system...
...about a week into my time here the inevitable happened. I had a meeting across town and 10 minutes to get there. It was 8:30 a.m. and I knew it would take at least a half hour in traffic—there was only one choice. I saw Yoweri driving by my apartment on a Yamaha and flagged him down...
Yoweri is a “boda boda” man, one of tens of thousands in Uganda. The term was christened in the small eastern town of Busia, which spills across the border with Kenya. Legend has it that the passenger bicycle operators used to call, “border, border” to communicate as they ferried their customers across. Over the years, the “boda boda” phenomenon has spread throughout the country as an independent and unregulated transit system...
When a prodigal son like our very own “George” walks back in after more than a decade in Washington and Austin, he is hailed as the very essence of the city. But the millions of others who come to town for a piece of the (formerly) booming North Texas economy will likely never really fit in with the establishment, even if they become wildly successful...
...that the party which will not find a base or do not find people to vote for them would work to make violence," he says. The government, he adds, does not have enough resources to protect its citizens. Hussam, a cashier at a bustling restaurant in another part of town, agrees with Nour's assessment. There will be violence as the country tries to figure out who controls the national legislature, he says, but it will not be the same as the old Sunni-Shi'ite vendettas. Says Hussam: "It will be a political party conflict." Prime Minister Nouri...