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...Indiana primary earlier this year, Helen Hernandez planned to use her lunch break from her janitorial job to vote. Although she arrived without any identification, Hernandez expected a routine process at the polling place since she had voted regularly for nearly 50 years. The poll workers who greeted Hernandez, however, were unfamiliar with Indiana election law and failed not only to allow her to cast a vote without identification but also to provide her with a provisional ballot. Pressed by time and uncertain of her rights, Hernandez simply left...
...Davenport, Iowa, a town where the two candidates found themselves campaigning within blocks of each other last week. On the other hand, most of those polled--53%--were more inclined to agree with another probable Kerry voter in Davenport. "You just nowadays can't take a chance," said Helen Eberle, 78, a retired teacher. "It's hard for us to believe that they would use that as a political ploy. I just don't think they'd play around with that...
...trying to kick down the door of the person who's going to drive the truck loaded with explosives. But can we do it in time?" --Reported by Melissa August, Brian Bennett, Timothy J. Burger, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Douglas Waller, Michael Weisskopf and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Helen Gibson/London; Ghulam Hasnain/Gujrat; Syed Talat Hussain/Islamabad and Tim McGirk/Karachi
...completed the trifecta, as another of Phyllis? daytime programs aimed at flattering the intelligence and expanding the interests of its (mostly female) audience. Francis, with her breezy assurance and fabulous social-baritone voice, co-hosted the show with Hugh Downs. They interviewed guests ranging from Jerry Lewis to Helen Keller to Judge Joseph N. Welch, the Army?s attorney in the Army-McCarthy hearings that ended Joe McCarthy?s four-year run as the Capital?s chief witch-hunter. ?We were an educational program,? Francis said later, ?and the one it educated most...
...Cinque is dead. It's the leitmotif and only real truth in Helen Garner's true-crime account, Joe Cinque's Consolation (Picador; 328 pages). He was the good-natured son of Italian migrants who moved from Newcastle to Canberra to live with his sexy law- student girlfriend. She is Anu Singh, the indulged daughter of Sydney doctors whose eating disorders and Prozac popping saw her charge reduced to manslaughter, and who walked away with four years in jail and a masters' degree in criminology. A decade ago, in The First Stone, Garner lifted the lid off a famous sexual...