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...Quality," which in olden times meant adaptations of high-toned popular fiction. No one ever got to say what was on their minds in those films, which often featured feverish and high-strung emoting by such live-wire nut jobs as Bette Davis or Joan Crawford who would haul a handgun out of her handbag and plug whoever was thwarting her hormonal needs. Here everyone suffers in hushed silence...
...very much like Wall Street: actual results can be less important than beating expectations. So as the second quarter winds into its final hours and the campaigns prepare to report their fundraising totals, every one of the leading contenders is playing down the size of his or her own haul and talking up the competition. That all but guarantees there will be some surprises. But here's what the political pros are watching...
...What this means for the total size of Obama's haul this quarter is still unclear. The campaign is saying it expects to raise in the neighborhood of the $25.7 million it brought in for the first quarter, a figure that is almost certainly low-balled. But Obama aides are also insisting that the $40 million number that some of his competitors are throwing around is absurd. "The only people talking about our numbers are people who don't know," insists Obama spokesman Bill Burton...
...Still, he added, the failure to look more closely at the rich, hard-partying Ravenel before appointing him to a prominent post in a key primary state could be a sign that Giuliani's operation is too casual for the long haul. "It's the kind of foul-up that suggests that his campaign team isn't functioning as well as it should," the G.O.P. source said. "Presidential campaigns are not the time for amateur hour...
...animals - provided they're in carriers - will be allowed on buses used to ferry evacuees to other designated sites outside the city; from there, the state takes over, using buses to move people to a network of shelters and what Sneed calls "climate controlled vehicles" - namely, tractor trailers - to haul their cats and dogs. Ideally, he says, owners and pets will be sheltered in close proximity; displaced people will have, if not the comforts of home, at least the comfort of a beloved pet. And shelter operators won't be saddled with the care and feeding of someone else...