Word: fixes
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...over the devastated parish, families are trying to decide whether to stay or move on. "At first, people think they're going to fix their homes," says councilwoman Judy Hoffmeister, shaking her head as she watches a friend, Calvin Melerine, 66, shovel mud from his two-story home and ditch one piece of furniture after another. "They come in with U-Hauls, and they're lucky if they leave with a garbage bag full," she says. At her house around the block, Hoffmeister plans to rescue some bronzed baby shoes, but she turns away in tears at the door after...
...editorial writing with that last sentence. I assigned blame, nebulously, to “Fly-By,” when I should have been more explicit. It’s our fault. We’re Harvard students, and we’re stupid. All it would take to fix Fly-By is a conscious choice on the part of Fly-By-goers to treat the different food stations at Fly-By like they treat the different food stations at the Greenhouse. Once we’ve all filled up our bags with six nutritious items, we can queue...
...interface made it easier to deal with. (Wi-Fi geeks might be saddened to hear that the camera only supports WEP wireless security. If your network runs the newer, safer WPA security, you'll have to drop it back down to WEP. Kodak will probably come up with a fix for this in the coming year...
...lobby for an emergency waiver that would allow undocumented immigrants to work during the current season. (Congress won't begin to look at any legislative remedies until later this fall, too late for this year's harvest.) "The President, the Administration, and the U.S. Congress have the ability to fix this," Nassif says. "They just have to believe that there is a pending crisis...
...indulgent lingerie fix, go to Boutique Princesse Tam Tam (53, Rue Bonaparte), and look for late-January sales. Sunday-morning ritual? Walk and shop the thriving March Biologique (Boulevard Raspail, between Rue de Rennes and Rue du Cherche-Midi). Here amid the cheese and mushrooms are cashmere shawls, Panama hats and herb-infused bath salts. I never leave without buying the best latke--here it's called a galette--I ever ate: grated potato, onion and cheese all sizzled and crusty...