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In the hamlet of Chappaqua in New York's affluent Westchester County, people have never become jaded about their most famous neighbors, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Well-wishers swarm them after the parade on Memorial Day: dozens of people jostling on the neat lawn by Chappaqua's train station, shaking...
The former President is still the superstar. People follow him into shops when they see him walking around, townsfolk say. On a day like Memorial Day, when both Clintons appear together at the end of the parade route, he draws by far the bigger crowd.
So far, however, the Clintons haven't put down roots in the town, at least in the conventional way. They seem to have few close friends here, and no regular church. But Chappaqua is well-suited to them. It keeps a pleasant hometowny charm, and yet is indisputably affluent and...
Streets that had been nearly empty for a month were now snarled with traffic. Some people had come to see their homes, while others were merely curious, and snapped pictures with cell-phone cameras. The still-smoldering lunar craters of what used to be residential blocks were now filled with...
The only thing that was stopping Jerusalem from prohibiting the gay pride parade was the Israeli constitution, which forbids discrimination. But at the slightest sign of trouble, the authorities bailed. Why?