The old-fashioned town meeting has fallen from favor because it was disorderly and unpredictable--ill suited to the kind of dispassionate reflection government is supposed to require.
The address didn't really prove whether the 44-year-old former small-town mayor deserved the job of vice president after just 21 months as governor of Alaska.
These Citizen Congresses will combine old-fashioned town halls with 21st century technology.
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No viewer can watch the abuse endured by kids such as Alex, a 13-year-old social misfit in Sioux City, Iowa, or Kelby, a 14-year-old lesbian in small-town Oklahoma, without feeling angry and motivated to change youth culture and the school officials who turn a blind eye.
The carbon combines with the hydrogen in water to make carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas--the old "town gas"--but then the catalyst prompts a rejiggering of the atoms into methane (one carbon atom attached to four hydrogen atoms).
So even a Bears fan can admit that the relationship between Green Bay and its team is something special. (Applause.) It reflects those old-school, small-town values of community and hard work that have always defined what it meant to be an American.
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The 65-year-old joined Town in 1988 and has been responsible for developing a number of current first-team players.
The opponents say the development would also hurt the heritage and landscape of the 700-year-old market town.
Several years later, Mr. Palacios built a very modern winery just outside of Gratallops, where it looms over the centuries-old town.
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The 75-year-old former town mayor said he was known to many as "the chap with the bow tie and Mr Bury in Bloom".
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The couple and three children (a newborn, a 3-year-old and a 6-year-old) moved into a three-bedroom home in Hope Town, a village of 400 on Elbow Cay, part of the Bahamian island of Abaco.
The biggest project, to the tune of around 30 million euros, is the reconstruction of the abandoned 19th-century military base south of the Old Town into a 21st-century cultural platform.
Burn it off by pounding the cobblestoned streets of Vieux-Lille (the old town), perhaps with a sinful stop-off at macaroon-maker Patrick Hermand on rue Basse.
Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.
From Frenchglen, keep heading south to the still smaller town of Andrews (pop. 0), where a century-old barn outside of town is missing its roof.
While everyone and their mother (this author's parents included) have bought one of those hot new environmentally-conscious cars like a Prius, there's an old-new game in town: the purely electric car.
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Today, the 2, 600-acre gated enclave, situated some 45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan, boasts century-old trees, three pristine lakes, an 18-hole golf course, and a number of Gilded-Age mansions designed by well-known architects of the day.
McCain unveiled Sarah Palin, a 44-year-old first-term Alaska governor and former small-town mayor, as his running mate Friday.
The 20-year-old is back at Town after spending the first half of the season out on loan at Bradford City.
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The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
In fact, with the exception of Microsoft, Seattle looks distinctly like an old-style lumber and defense town dominated by giants like Weyerhaeuser, Boeing and cut-rate retailer Costco.
Before the Olympics, I ran with the Olympic flame in my old home town of Bexhill-on-Sea in the south of England, which was a tremendous honor.
Take a short drive to wander the aromatic Seven Oaks Lavender Farm, then experience in a bit of small-town Americana as you roam around nearby Old Town Warrenton.
The 25-year-old scored 29 goals this season to help Town into the League One play-off final, which they lost, and will replace Jermaine Beckford.
He is in his sixties, and he speaks with old-world charm and an easily-shared enthusiasm for his town.
It followed the earlier arrest of a 46-year-old man after a spate of firework-like attacks in the town.
Greenwich, a town filled with old-money estates, is no stranger to grand listings.
It was an old Mid-western coal-mining town, where there was no more mining, and very few other places to work.
Many of the residents, like 52-year-old Morris Manan, left town and took refuge with relatives in the center of the country.
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