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The intensity of this feeling was expressed not only in ready agreement to sign a petition to place a socialist antiwar candidate on the ballot , but in contributions on the spot which totaled hundreds of dollars in the course of the petition drive . We put into Whangerei further up the east coast and spent the next three days or so riding out the cyclone at the town pier , eating pizza and drinking cappuccino in the nearby restaurant . White pointed out the near silence of the corporate-controlled media toward the idea being floated by the Bush administration that the November elections might be postponed indefinitely under the guise of terrorist threat . They lie in the middle of streets and hold up the traffic . Under the guise of abolishing the executive presidency and returning to a parliamentary system , Kumaratunga is preparing to assume the role of prime minister . Just before Christmas Ian 's clarinet group also played at a concert for the homeless - - turned out it was not an audience of vagabonds but local worthies raising funds for a homeless shelter . The bulk of the signatures were collected in Ann Arbor , the most populous city in the district , but hundreds signed the petition in Monroe , an old industrial city 15 miles north of Toledo , Ohio , in Ypsilanti , home to several large auto plants , and in working class Detroit suburbs like Taylor and Inkster . The town is bisected by a wide river valley , the Oldman River ( just keeps rolling along ) , which cuts deep into the surrounding high prairie . This year we were awoken by strange sounds in the middle of the night , and came on deck to an unforgettable dolphin display . Pretty soon we were in the middle of a torrential downpour , with zero visibility , feeling naked and vulnerable in the middle of a busy shipping lane . We went out on the town for delicious sushi , and on to her house for coffee . It seems we are in the middle of it .