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...arrested in June 2005 on charges of open and gross lewdness when Out of Town News employees called the police after seeing Ora dancing naked in the Square pit, protesting the commercialization of Christmas. The charges were originally dropped because the Cambridge District Court ruled that dancing naked is constitutional under “expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment,” according to the ruling...
...felony charges against Ora have been reinstated, and her case will go to trial soon, said Ora’s lawyer Daniel Beck. In order for the state’s case to hold up, the Out of Town News employees who called the police would have to come to court and testify as to being shocked and alarmed by Ora’s nudity, and Beck said he is doubtful that they would do so three years after the incident...
...mythologized and so misunderstood as rural voters. Nor have many been so cynically manipulated into voting against their own interests. The last 30 years of American politics have witnessed an extraordinarily duplicitous—and, unfortunately, extraordinarily successful—program by conservative politicians and commentators to annex small-town America by shamelessly pandering to ugly stereotypes that paint rural voters as religiously minded, gun toting, nativists. Now that tradition can count amongst its ranks another prominent practitioner in the form of Hillary Clinton, who, in the face of increasingly onerous roadblocks in her path to the nomination, has elected...
...regular guy. Even under the best of circumstances that's not an easy task when you're standing on a stage before a packed auditorium of hundreds and being broadcast to millions. But considering the fallout he has had to endure since his notorious "bitter" comments about small-town America were revealed, and the fact that Obama has already had a hard time connecting with blue-collar voters during much of the campaign, it's an especially tall order...
...what may well be a preview of the approach he takes in the debate, Obama responded to the elitist charge at a town hall for veterans earlier this week by turning the accusation around. "I am amused by this notion of elitist given that - when you are raised by single mom, when you are on food stamps for a while when you're growing up, you went to school on scholarship," Obama said "So when someone makes that argument, particularly when I've spent my entire life working with workers in low-income communities to try to make peoples lives...