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...cost? At best, the $62 billion already allocated for recovery is expected to last through the beginning of October. With the Federal Government spending more than $2 billion a day in the affected areas, some members of Congress are estimating that the bill could top $200 billion. That's equal to nearly 9% of what the U.S. government spends each year...
...flames blazed 400 miles away in New Orleans on Labor Day, about 600 fire fighters from across the nation sat in an Atlanta hotel listening to a FEMA lecture on equal opportunity, sexual harassment and customer service. "Your job is going to be community relations," a FEMA official told them, according to Joe Calhoun, an assistant fire chief from Portage, Ind., who was there. "You'll be passing out FEMA pamphlets and our phone number...
...inborn rebellious instincts and up-tempo temperament, caused some intramural tension that has only lately been resolved. "I was in the wilderness for a few years, so there was a natural antagonism within the band that people picked up on. Now the spirituality contained within the band is equal to all the members." Clayton, tan and muscular, with an army recruit's haircut and a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles that makes him look like an insurrectionist with a bass instead of a bomb, remains U2's most sulfurous presence, lending a slight but leveling tension to the stage show...
...created a system based on witchcraft, and people think they have to know a lot, but they really don't. Never underestimate the value of simplicity. Your bond position should equal your age. I won't tell you this is the best investment advice you'll ever get, but the number of pieces of advice that are worse is infinite...
...those extreme cases ... I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleag[u]es, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed." Plessy was the infamous 1896 ruling allowing "separate but equal" accommodations for blacks and whites. After the memo emerged, Rehnquist drafted a letter to a Senate ally in which he claimed that Jackson, by then deceased, had requested the memo "as a rough draft of a statement of his views." When contacted by a reporter, Jackson's former secretary denied that her boss...