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...better be a big one, with copious bookshelves and an acre of bare wall. The shelves can hold the reports, of which there have been depressingly many, on the nation's lack of preparedness for homeland security. (The three most recent ones total more than 500 dire pages. And the new General Accounting Office report says that federal bioterrorism defense is so chaotic the agencies can't even agree on which threats to worry about.) The wall space is needed for Ridge's organizational chart, for he will have to coordinate the activities of more than 40 federal agencies...
...though, most people seem willing to stock up on just the bare essentials. "I'm only spending money that I absolutely have to, like for gas and food," says Roxanne Steiny, the operations manager of a Los Angeles e-commerce firm. Some nervous home buyers are backing out of deals just before closing. Michelle Dykstra, a real estate agent in La Jolla, Calif., outside San Diego, has already seen one client walk away before signing for an $850,000 home...
...hour's drive?and an entire world?away. At his apartment in the Karachi Engineering University's staff colony, a simple, sober message printed in Arabic and English greets visitors at the front door: ALLAH IS THE BEST PROVIDER OF ALL. Inside, the drab walls are devoid of decoration, bare but for a calendar. There is no television on the TV stand, but in its place sits a Koran wrapped lovingly in an embroidered shawl. The women are sequestered, and a peaceful silence prevails...
...exec and comp director William Y. Weaver ’98-’03 loves the fresh meat. Enticing the next generation of sultry semanticists to a Saturday soiree with promises of drunken debauchery, Weaver proceeded to embark upon eight bare-assed circumnavigations of the Quad. Said one underwhelmed comper, “Nice route, Magellan.” Shuddered another, “You know, Will really shouldn’t do that?...
...jobs--unless you need to suit up every day against an adversary like fire. He made some spectacular rescues, including a courageous save as a lieutenant in 1991 on the roof of a midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands and, straining and skidding toward the parapet, lowered two fire fighters, one at a time, down into black, billowing smoke; each man grabbed a panicky victim from a windowsill perch. The lunchtime crowd below went wild with relief...