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...gridlock in Washington. We have surpluses as far as the eye can see. We'll find the weapons of mass destruction; we'll be welcomed as liberators; the insurgency is in its last throes. We don't torture. Nobody thought the levees would break; FEMA is doing a heckuva job; we'll do what it takes to rebuild. The economy is fundamentally strong, and more tax cuts will make it stronger. And we can save Social Security by letting you invest your benefits in the market...
...tell MICHAEL BROWN he's doing a heckuva job anymore. He's his own boss now. Brown, 51, who was FEMA director when Katrina hit last August, was roundly pilloried for mishandling the relief effort after the hurricane. At first President Bush stood by him, but two weeks after the storm, Brown resigned. For six weeks, he continued to work for FEMA as a consultant. Then he set up his own shop--in disaster preparedness. His firm, Michael D. Brown LLC, draws on the lessons of Katrina to help corporate clients implement contingency plans ahead of natural disasters...
...said Harvard coach Joe Walsh, “You feel like you’re going to get two wins out of it. So it was disappointing. It was real disappointing.” But Walsh added, “There’s no blame. Just a heckuva ballgame. You know, you gotta get on the board. And we didn’t.” In game one, Haviland fed the Quakers a steady diet of curveballs, confounding the opposition with a spot-on delivery and superb control. He produced a nearly identical line—seven-inning...
...miles to Oberlin or Hoxie. It's expected that the younger kids will be bused away as well. "It's beyond fighting," says Sharon Hickert, a loan officer at the Jennings Bank. The bank and a caf are the last businesses on the strip. "We've seen a heckuva decline in the 12 years that I've been here...
...Dave had to work on a case in London via computer on Day Two - an eerily suitable predicament on Epcot Day - so the happy task of taking Christopher to ?Mission: SPACE? fell to Uncle Bobby, which is me. ?Mission? is a heckuva ride. They give you three or four chances to back out before the harness slips down and, in a room that doesn?t go anywhere, they zoom you to Mars. If you?re squeamish, take their heed. They keep saying the ride can cause motion sickness, and I will offer as Exhibit A the young...