Mandarin Opens Door for Huntsman

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Abby Goodnough, For Huntsman, Mandarin Proves a Draw. New York Times, Jan 9, 2012 (blog).
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.c ... 20taiwan&st=cse

Two consecutive paragraphs:

'On Monday morning, as Mr Huntsman shook hands at a bakery in Henniker, a woman buttonholed his wife, Mary Kaye, to talk about China. Her daughter had done research in Hong Kong, she told Mrs Huntsman, and she wondered: How was it for you living there?

“'It was great except for those horribly polluted days when you put your child out to get on a bus and they start coughing,' Mrs. Huntsman replied.

Note:
(a) Henniker, New Hampshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henniker,_New_Hampshire
(a town)
(b) buttonhole (vt; alteration of buttonhold; First Known Use 1857):
"to detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of"
www.m-w.com
(c) Hampstead, New Hampshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead,_New_Hampshire
(a town)