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...author doesn't hide her admiration for the Governor, whom she refers to throughout by her first name. In fact, she tells Palin's story in terms usually reserved for the DVD boxes of romantic comedies: "It is a political Cinderella tale in which a small-town mayor and hockey mom follows her hopes and dreams in the face of a disapproving political establishment to become the belle of the inaugural ball." (That's the gubernatorial ball, of course...
...President, CEO and Chairman of Bank of America Corp. - and the man whose $50 billion purchase of brokerage firm Merrill Lynch & Co. was some of the only good news on one of Wall Street's worst-ever days - Kenneth Lewis was a Mississippi boy who lived in a town so small he once joked that you had to go one town over "just to be born." He went to Georgia State University and then to work at North Carolina National Bank (NCNB) in Charlotte as a credit analyst - his first banking job. That was back in 1969, and he never...
...swing through Pennsylvania last month, John McCain visited a Manheim Central High School football practice - not to ingratiate himself with the players, who weren't even old enough to vote, but to identify himself with the gritty, down-home, lunch-bucket values of small-town football. "This is a blue-collar town," Manheim's coach said in his introduction of McCain. "We don't have a lot of flashy athletes. We don't come out with a lot of flash." But the coach explained that his team works hard, plays with discipline and comes through...
...presidential politics as well as sports. Sports announcers have at least made an effort to shed their stereotypes; they occasionally describe black players as "scrappy" or "blue collar," adjectives that used to be reserved for whites. But for political pundits, "working class" or "blue collar" or even "small town" voters still means white; blacks have their own category...
...back in my hometown for my brother's wedding. It was supposed to be a grand one, with dinner and dancing under a canopy of old oak trees in Brazoria County. But the county's been evacuated, and the bride's parents have fled to Hempstead, a small town northwest of Houston. The three of us decided to ride out the storm in downtown Houston with my parents in their sixth floor apartment...