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Even without doing the math, you probably get that the government's financial-rescue effort is failing. The signs are hard to miss. Your friend in finance got pink-slipped. A house sale down the street fell through because the buyer couldn't get a mortgage. A local bank is closing a nearby branch or maybe shutting down altogether...
...part, the UAW seems to be counting on a new friend in Washington. "During the eight years George W. Bush was in the White House, (AFL-CIO) President John Sweeney wasn't invited to the White House once," Gettelfinger notes. Now, he says, "You just can't believe the change in Washington...
...raid by secret police on DVB's Rangoon secret headquarters - also a reconstruction, although the events it depicts are real and tragic enough. Three reporters were arrested, others went into hiding. Joshua is now in exile, but the authorities know his name - they tortured it out of a friend - and keep his family under surveillance...
...friend and more down-to-earth counterpoint is Nathan Baker-Trinity, a 31-year-old Lutheran pastor and FTE fellow who shuttles a red Mercury Tracer between two yoked churches near the White Earth Indian Reservation. His answer to the pastor shortage is simply to commit to the countryside (he grew up in rural Iowa). "I was like, 'Why wouldn't you go to a rural area?'" he says. Baker-Trinity is an indefatigable local booster. "They're talking about making my whole town wireless!" he says enthusiastically. Equally smitten are his parishioners, like Howard Steinmetz. After decades working...
...great friend Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who died at 66 on Jan. 24 after a long, courageous fight with breast cancer, just had a way of dealing with the disease. She fought it for more than two decades--Kay got her first diagnosis in 1987--but never played the pity role. She always gravitated to other people and asked them how they were holding up. Kay wanted to help others with their battles, even though she was fighting the toughest...