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| After final buzzer, Oregon’s still home (Portland Tribune) |
| Enough Trail Blazers –past and present – live year-round in the Portland area to field several basketball teams. For various reasons –including the friendliness of the people to the mildness of the climate – a lot of Portland players choose to stick around or return to Rip ... |
| 08/28/2008 |
| Comings and Goings -- from A to Z (Convenience Store News) |
| Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (Top 100 rank: #6) Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., Laval, Quebec, agreed to acquire 83 convenience stores from Convenient Food Mart Inc., Painesville, Ohio, in May. The transaction included stores in the St. Louis and central Illinois area. |
| 08/21/2008 |
| Obama not lodge's brother (Lancaster Online) |
| When Gene Rutherford, 65, tries to make sense of the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, and the rampant enthusiasm for him among younger Americans, he thinks of the local mall, where as director of operations he often deals with teenagers. "Kids today have been given everything they want, and ... |
| 08/16/2008 |
| What's the Matter With Thomas Frank? (The New York Sun) |
| Although "The Wrecking Crew" (Metropolitan Books, 384 pages, $25) purports to be about conservatism, and its many "crimes," Thomas Frank's latest is actually far more instructive on the unsettled state of the Democratic Party and its current leftward drift. The author, who created a minor sensation with his best-selling "What's the Matter With Kansas?" is a trained historian with a pronounced ... |
| 08/11/2008 |
| Populism then and now: Old wine, new bottle, part 1 (Online Journal) |
| You were once Jed Dawson, a farmer in Kansas in 1886 when nearly half of Americans worked on farms. You’re tough as a leather boot with about 5 percent body fat and hard, stringy muscles. Your wife can drive a team of horses with her left hand while she cradles the new baby in her right arm. |
| 08/10/2008 |
| Maisel: Need for speed (ESPN) |
| The huddle is facing its demise thanks to the up-tempo offenses that litter college football, writes Ivan Maisel. |
| 08/08/2008 |
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