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After spending 10 days in London with friends who were outspoken about their disdain for President Bush's policies, Berns Rothchild came home wishing she had a way to show the world she didn't vote for him. "I sort of felt ashamed, and didn't really want to be associated with being an American," said Rothchild, who lives in New York City and voted for John Kerry. Her mother had a suggestion: bracelets, inspired by the Lance Armstrong Foundation's popular "LIVESTRONG" bands, that would signal opposition to Bush. Thousands of miles away, two women in Idaho had the same idea. So did...

Choking back tears, Ald. Richard Mell (33rd) today declared a public end to the messy feud with his son-in-law, Gov. Blagojevich, in hopes of repairing a first family torn apart. Mell insisted he had every right to take a stand against what he viewed as the governor's attempt to smear him and close a Will County landfill operated by Frank Schmidt, a distant relative of Mell and first lady Patti Blagojevich who was being advised by the alderman. But that doesn't mean the aldermen doesn't regret some of the bitter charges he made against the governor and the effect the...

Hatfields, McCoys take feud to court Family -- and tourist development officials -- seek access to cemetery 12/28/2002 Associated Press PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Descendants of the nation's most famous feuding families will face off in court next month in a trial to settle a dispute over access to an eastern Kentucky cemetery. "I really hate that we have to go to the court system to settle this," said Bo McCoy of Waycross, Ga., one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against a Hatfield descendant and his wife who have blocked access to the family cemetery. "We wanted to be...