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...dark suits and cowboy boots, Bobb has a commanding presence and seems to be everywhere: at school-bus depots, at barbershops, churches and grocery stores to prod parents to get their kids to school each day - on time. His schedule is often double-booked, partly because he knows he must quickly build support for his plans, like a $500.5 million proposal - approved by voters last November - to build or renovate 18 schools. He has recently signed on for a second year. It won't be any easier than his first. "Change is painful," Bobb says, adding, "We cannot be afraid...
...reaction to the economic crisis has been a predictable spending of trillions to soften the blow. But compassion can have consequences that aren't so compassionate - a nettlesome economic truth that now needs to be applied as Congress plans to extend unemployment benefits for the fifth time since the dark fog of recession settled...
...pointed inquisition that bodes well for its future. "It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying an insurance policy on the buyer," he said at one point while grilling Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein about the dodgy mortgage securities the bank sold. The dark arts that produced this crisis may finally be coming into the light...
...asked her where she had found the courage to defy the Gestapo during the dark days of the occupation, and she protested. "I did nothing heroic or extraordinary," she said. "Human beings were in peril, and I had to care for them." But for the Franks, she represented all that is good and generous. She was the incarnation of hope...
...have so many options to be published." That's exactly what aspiring author Satyajit Sarna is banking on as he sizes up the festival crowd, looking for his big break. But figuring out how to become the next Indian literary star isn't easy. "My book is a dark coming of age story where nothing really works out for anyone," he says. "I don?t even know if there?s a market for that...