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GARRISON KEILLOR
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In swept July, the dumb stuff doesn't matter
Summer nights! The fragrant dark descends, the night creatures chitter and chirrup, and we linger on the porch, a little wine in the glass, children coming and going, and we inhale the sweetness of life. In Pasadena, people are lined up outside a bank, hoping to get their money out before it goes belly-up, and Mr. McCain's friend Mr. Gramm says we are a nation of whiners complaining about a recession that is only mental, but we are engulfed in summer and don't notice. We're sitting on the porch, inhaling the breeze from the trees, and we are American optimists.
Heller morphs into Gibbons
In 1998 when backers of Republican Kenny Guinn were busily trying to wire the governor's race for him by shutting off campaign money to all other candidates, they worried less about Democrats than about another Republican -- Dean Heller, the secretary of state.
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