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...Hampshire primary is a bizarre manifestation of the American politic. But in many ways, it is also an example of what our democracy should be. Having worked in campaigns and canvassed voters in locales as disparate as San Diego, California and Portland, Maine, I am confident that New Hampshire voters are the most receptive and informed I have ever met. They take their citizenship seriously. While knocking on people’s doors I have been offered reading lists, documentary titles, and sophisticated political analysis, not to mention lemonade, cookies, and even a hamburger. And I would predict the same...
...video games something we should grow out of? Are you still a kid at heart? -Christopher Solis, SAN FRANCISCOI think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. Nintendo wants to make it easier for people to never grow out of video games...
...wasn't exactly a Horatio Alger story, but it was still undeniably success, American-style. Jim Mitchell and his brother Artie (below, left; Jim, right) built a porn empire that included the famous O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco and requisite rap sheet of obscenity and drug charges. The Mitchells also brought the world such adult-film classics as the 1972 Marilyn Chambers vehicle Beyond the Green Door, a $60,000 flesh romp that admirers would extol (seriously) for its plot, camera angles and musical score. It went on to earn the brothers $30 million on their investment...
...Shag Crawford was proudly one of them, a tough ump from the old school, and he presided over plenty of drama in his two decades at the corners and behind the plate. He broke up one of baseball's scariest fights when an enraged Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants clubbed Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro on the head with a bat. He also had the nerve to eject a manager in the World Series: Baltimore's voluble Earl Weaver, in the fourth game of the 1969 series with the New York Mets, the eventual champs. In poetic...
...congregations may provide hospitality, legal or material help, or advocacy. Thus in San Francisco recently a nun and five ministers accompanied the parents of a desperately ill infant to request a humanitarian stay of deportation (they received it), and a Seattle group sent out an alarm about a coming raid to fellow believers in Portland, Ore., who then videotaped it for possible human-rights violations...