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There was, too, the fumbling FEMA, which, desperate for redemption after the fiasco of Katrina, almost seemed to get it right, until it staged a faux news conference touting its achievements and the comeback campaign came undone. Finally, of course, there are Americans as a whole, a stubbornly homesteading people who never seem to tire of building in the paths of fires, hurricanes and coastal floods. There is little to suggest that the California blazes have broken us of that obstinate habit. But there is much to suggest that when the crises do hit, we'll at least be ready...
...rhinestone suits made him a popular hitmaker (Green Green Grass of Home, Skid Row Joe) and influential ambassador, but he was best known for mentoring and performing with Dolly Parton, whom he launched on TV's syndicated 1960-79 Porter Wagoner Show. Last summer Wagoner made a national comeback with the critically acclaimed indie-album Wagonmaster. To promote it, he opened for rock's White Stripes, firing up, for at least one more night, an adoring capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden...
Provided Britney Spears can keep herself out of jail or rehab, she’ll be able to take some satisfaction in pulling off a big comeback with “Blackout.” Spears’s first new album since 2003’s “In The Zone” attempts to put aside recent troubles and defiantly declare that none of it matters. While “In The Zone” was a statement of independence from her handlers and the constraints of teen pop, “Blackout” confronts listeners...
...dilemma. As I loitered in the Dunster House Common Room for the final innings of game four, surrounded by a squawking throng of simian Red Sox fans, I couldn’t decide whether I should root for a Colorado comeback, out of my usual Schadenfreude for Boston sports, or rather bite my lip and hope for a quick Sox victory so as to get the whole damn thing over with. I was leaning towards the latter; the exquisite masochism of Boston sports fans, born out of centuries of Irish-Catholic resentment and sexual privation was getting tedious; and besides...
After watching the men's water polo team push their bodies to the limit and implausibly comeback from a six-goal deficit in the second half, the surveyors of fate decided to deal a particularly crippling blow to the Crimson’s season...