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...Housing and Urban Development, according to an Administration official. The official said there were advantages to using existing HUD programs rather than starting a new one from scratch, adding that it was unclear who would administer the FDIC's plan. "There's a lot of work to do to flesh out [Bair's] idea," the official said. Congress and both candidates for President have also discussed potential homeowner-bailout programs of their...
...restraints of his own frailties. Yeats longed to exchange the "fury and mire of human veins" for the "changeless metal" of the city's mechanical golden birds, whose beauty he felt to be permanent. There is historical evidence that the Byzantines, too, revered artifice while denigrating the human flesh: self-castration was a popular means of purification, and mutilation a prevalent form of punishment - one Emperor even wore a gold nose as a result...
...This economics made flesh is not just terribly moving - though it certainly is that. It also produces a sense of intense pride in those who are living it. It is that sense of pride - quite palpable throughout Asia today - that provides the demand for respect, for influence, for the nations that have achieved such economic success to receive their just deserts...
...From Raising Steaks, on the Beacon Beefsteak, a night of beef eating and male bonding: "It's every caveman for himself, clasping his meat like a hunk of mastodon, gnawing flesh that resists seductively before it yields, squirting fluids red with blood and fat over my hands and down my chin...Elbows out, the men sitting either side of me lunge for the platter to see who can sop up the most sauce with their bread and fill their triple-sized shot glasses from the bottles of Maker's Mark that line the tables, to see who can toss down...
...room was crowded with chiseled torsos, the rippling biceps and trim hips of demigods and Olympians. Frederick felt his mouth go dry. Some of the youths lacked heads or arms, but that hardly mattered. He stumbled from one statue to the next, his hands pawing desperately at the frozen flesh. They were perfect. So firm—so cold...