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A Charity Official Runs a Small South Carolina Town

When Carol Burdette gets out of bed at 4:30 a.m, she checks the local paper to see if anyone is calling for the ouster of the mayor of Pendleton, S.C., population 3,000. Then she prays, asking specifically for grace and tact. "I want to be able to say the right things to folks" as the day wears on, she says. By 6:30, she is off to the...

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