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...crisis was caused by some people on Wall Street being irresponsible and taking big risks and the economy is being held accountable,” he said, before adding with a smile, “but that’s life...
...enough credit ever,” Pizzotti said. In fact, the starting linemen for the Crimson have only given up one sack so far this year on 117 total pass attempts. “Today we had one sack, which was my fault because I held onto the ball too long,” Pizzotti added. “So those guys opened up holes and protected them and did a great job.” But the success did not come overnight. The line spent the entire off-season and summer working out, conditioning, and training for the upcoming...
...This time, Hollywood Heights, her West End island neighborhood just two blocks off the beach was quickly put under water by Ike. A moldy black water line high on the yellow siding shows where the water had crested, perhaps as high as 15 feet. The green storm shutters had held, but had been blown open and the water flooded into the home. The back bedroom's wooden floor had collapsed. Somewhere in the hole she hopes to find her husband's treasured sextant from his seafaring days...
Incongruity rules. For Post-Ike Galveston, like Post-Katrina New Orleans, the weather has been glorious. As the suns falls in the west, the brown pelicans head eastward, as they always do, to the wetlands, flying parallel to the 10 mile seawall that islanders had hoped would have held back the surge. As the birds head home, a constant parade of dump trucks line up in a parallel path heading west along the seawall road to a massive emergency landfill by the airport. The city expects up to 1.5 million cubic yards of debris will be removed from homes...
...says Obama has enough Electoral College votes to win the White House. According to Rove's reading of state polls, just seven states are toss-ups at this point - Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida - all of which Bush won in 2004. "If the election were held today, Obama would win every state John Kerry won in 2004, while adding New Mexico, Iowa and Colorado to his coalition," Rove announced on his blog Sunday...