Word: bullocks
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Inside, people of middle age drifting haggardly into dotage huddle around video kiosks with racing results beamed in from horse- and greyhound-tracks worldwide (or cable—one patron watched a Sandra Bullock movie). The tiled floor was littered with discarded ticket stubs, and the multi-story gambling lounge smelled like old cigarettes and old people...
...There?s a fine line between trying to counteract the blanket suspicion of others and trying to assuage your own prejudiced tendencies. Sandra Bullock put it worst in the movie Crash: ?I just had a gun pointed in my face and it was my fault because I knew it was gonna happen,? her character says after getting carjacked by two young black guys. ?But if a white person sees two black men walking towards her and she turns and walks away, she's a racist, right? Well I got scared and I didn't do anything and ten seconds later...
...Jesse James: Mr. Tattoos and leather, the custom motorcycle builder, will have to scrub up to escort wife, Crash's Sandra Bullock, who will be a presenter...
...many disaster experts, FEMA's feeble response, just like the massive hurricane that triggered it, was woefully predictable. President Bush began emasculating the agency soon after taking office. Jane Bullock, a 22-year FEMA veteran who ended up as the agency's chief of staff during the Clinton Administration, says she sensed the incoming Administration's disdain during her first postelection meeting with members of Bush's FEMA transition team. "They said we had done a good p.r. job," she recalls. "I got the impression they had no idea what has to happen to deal with a disaster." Joe Allbaugh...
...calls from Capitol Hill to return FEMA to the Cabinet as an independent agency. There are also calls for Brown's head. On Friday the Administration sent Brown back to D.C. and announced that Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen would take over the recovery effort. But, warns Bullock, the problem is bigger than Brown. "The system is broken, and firing Mike Brown is not going...