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trounced his party's establishment candidate -- to the "kissing congressman," a faith-and-family politician caught on video embracing an aide married to one of his friends.
• Amid some calls for his resignation, he has said he will respect the verdict of his constituents this fall. Residents interviewed here by The Associated Press expressed disappointment, but not surprise.
• Noting the histories of President Bill Clinton and former Louisiana governor and current congressional candidate Edwin Edwards and sitting Sen. David Vitter, voters say they're accustomed to tawdry politician scandals. Many are as eager to speculate how a local newspaper got video of McAllister kissing Melissa Peacock as they are to opine on the dalliance itself. And they're sure there's more than enough hypocrisy and political intrigue to go around.
• McAllister's "main thing now is to get straight with his family," said Jackie Coleman, a retired law enforcement officer from Olla, south of Monroe. "Then," Coleman said, "this should be over."
• There's been little subtlety in the response from Republican powers.
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• DALA, Myanmar (AP) -- Every afternoon, the long lines start to form, hundreds of men, women and children waiting to dip their plastic buckets into the lotus-filled reservoir just outside Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon. It's their only source of clean drinking water, they say, and during the dry season, April and May, there is only so much to go around.  
• "It wasn't always this way," says 72-year-old Tin Shwe, one of the village elders, as he looks at the queue, some boys as young as 8 waiting their turn, yokes at their side. "It used to be only paddy fields. Only a few houses. There was enough water for all of us."
• Myanmar only recently emerged from a half-century of military rule. Nascent democratic reforms implemented by the new civilian government since 2011 have resulted in a development boom, with the World Bank and others pouring billions of dollars into the country of 60 million as it starts to open up to the world. But so far, it is the big cities that are seeing the benefits.
• Even places like Dala township -- just a 20-minute boat ride from Yangon -- have so far been left out. Authorities tell residents that maybe next year the govern

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