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...restore block grants for cities. "I could tell you story after story," he said about the glorious effects of federal dough. "If we start funding all the stories," Gregg responded, "we're going to run out of money." Ted Kennedy then rose, bristling with charts and graphs, to beg restoration of $5.4 billion for public education. "If money were the answer," Gregg sighed, "Washington, D.C., would have the best schools in the country," adding that the district spent more money per student than most states with worse results...
What would you do under those circumstances? Scream? Panic? Beg? But at that point, something else intervened. Smith actually communicated with her captor. She says she saw him not as a monster but as a human being. She talked with him. She told her story--how her husband had been stabbed in a dispute and had died in her arms, how she then had developed a drug habit, had been caught for speeding and drunken driving, had been arrested for assault (the charges were dropped), had ceded custody of her young daughter to her aunt. She showed him her wounds...
...length from British electronica act Lemon Jelly starts off with the withered voice of an old man played over chirping birds and some low strings. “Ah, let me see,” he begins. “That was in ninety-, eh, um, nineteen, no I beg your pardon, ninety...” fades out and it hits, the album’s first real song...
...anyone have to beg Andy “Yellow Dart” Brunner or Jack “No. 1 Stunner” Marsh to suit up for the People’s House? Do you think Paul “White Lightning” Soper or Regina “Gina” Schwartz needed to be asked twice whether they’d pay homage to Josiah by pelting Dunsterites with foam balls? They’d have killed to do so, though thankfully they were required only to sport matching jumpsuits and faux-hawks...
...beg your pardon, Mr. Konrad, but the reality is pretty freaking awesome...