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...week, some of FEMA's bumbling could have been an attempt to compensate for its haste last year after Hurricane Frances struck Florida. The agency ran afoul of federal auditors after it paid $31 million to residents of Miami-Dade, which was 100 miles south of the hurricane's eye...
...hands of extraordinarily sympathetic women -- a pleasant fate but an improbable one. This is particularly disappointing in Being Invisible, if only because the book raises higher expectations than the straightforwardly commercial Memoirs. Berger has qualities that Saint as yet lacks, including a distinctive prose style and a disciplined, selective eye. His antihero Wagner, seeking somebody else's faith to validate his existence, at least conveys a sense that something more is at stake than a big movie sale. Saint's Halloway remains a see-through personality, dismissed even by his yuppie former friends as "never much on belief...
...privacy, Bono acknowledges, "My life is just a mess. When I am away, I'm not at home. When I'm home, I'm not at home. I come in when she is going out." Ali, who is studying politics at Dublin's University College, "is the dark eye," in the words of her admiring husband. "She will not be worn like a brooch. We have a stormy relationship because she is her own woman." While in Arizona, worried that she sounded a little depressed on the transatlantic phone, Bono asked his in- laws to "keep an eye...
...proof is in the eye. Michelangelo did not design for electric light. It is the uncleaned two-thirds of the ceiling that needs spotlights to render its mighty forms visible through all the murk. The cleaned areas can be seen clearly by natural daylight, as Michelangelo meant them to be, from the floor 68 feet below. The forms have lost none of their "sculptural" definition, their nobly volumetric quality; instead, they have gained in modulation through the cleaning. Some doubts remain -- about the efficacy, for example, of the Vatican's plans for crowd and atmospheric control: as many...
...more respectable Wall Street circles, brokers winced at yet another black eye for the beleaguered stock-trading industry but applauded the sweep. Top officials at better-known brokerages claimed that the undercover action came partly as a result of their complaints about drug dealing in Wall Street's plazas and office corridors. Said one top stock market executive of the busted brokers: "They are the dregs of the industry...