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Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of Americans are circumventing the large organizations, ignoring expert advice and offering up their own private refuge. On the basis of conservative estimates from websites that have been making matches, more than 20,000 evacuees are staying in the homes of strangers. In some cases, the results have been predictably disastrous. A Minnesota woman unwittingly took in a woman who turned out to be wanted in Florida on suspicion of organized fraud, grand theft and probation violation, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press...
...From the beginning of the insurgency, U.S. military officers have tried to contact and negotiate with rebel leaders, including, as a senior Iraq expert puts it, "some of the people with blood on their hands...
...accumulation of blunders has led a Pentagon guerrilla-warfare expert to conclude, "We are repeating every mistake we made in Vietnam...
...many of them insist, would be to expand the government's Section 8 housing-voucher program. Meanwhile, President Bush's "urban homesteading" plan has received a lukewarm reception. "You're asking people who make less than $10,000 to build their own homes?" says Bruce Katz, a housing-policy expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington...
...peaceful small-town settings: a quiet motel, a friendly diner, the home of the most honorable citizen in Millbrook, Ind. He is Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), and he enjoys an idyllic life with his lovely, loving wife (Maria Bello) and their two kids. When Tom uses some surprisingly expert moves to defend his diner, he becomes a local hero. His sudden, splendid fame attracts the attention of some out-of-town gangsters (led by Ed Harris) who seem to have mistaken Tom for one Johnny Cusack, a hit man back in Philly...