Visitors to Maine often expect to find such colorful characters at every turn. In fact, Governor Angus King once said that if he could just strategically position a suitable crusty yet benign Mainah on the porch of every general store or end of every lobster wharf, giving people asking for directions the standard reply of You can't get theyah from heyah, tourism revenue would triple.

After Virginia came the twins, who were usually called the Star and Stripes, as they were always getting swished.

Rose wondered if there was something wrong with him in the trouser department. There was a thing her father used to say about boys pulling their foreskin back or it wouldn't work properly when the time came.

The lottomania (Forbes, Mar. 6, 1989) that sent state lottery revenues to more than $20 billion last year has finally run out of steam. Revenue gains are slackening off...