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While Lowell is notorious for its roaches, a major extermination effort a couple of years ago has kept FlyBy from seeing any in rooms in its time in the House. They're definitely not dropping on you every time you take a shower, and other Houses are secretly much worse...
...after more than a quarter century of marriage, 50-year-old Myerson got 57% of the loot. Ingrid Myerson walked away with the rest. So in return for paying his ex-wife $13.1 million in cash, and handing over a $2.1 million beach house in South Africa, Brian Myerson kept hold of stock in Principle Capital Holdings (PCH), his investment company, worth more than $20.1 million at the time. (See pictures of things money...
...hard to see the arguments you must have made to yourself: "Look, I got into it innocently. I needed to pay people, and I thought I could work my way out. But it never happened and I kept quiet, and I got in deeper and deeper. There was no turning back." There's the justification story that goes: "Wait a minute - all you investors were just as greedy as me. You didn't complain when the money was good. I gave you a lot of good years. More than anyone else, blame yourself." Then there's the cleansing argument...
LaRoe started getting calls immediately. People who had pledged to invest half a million dollars were dialing back to $200,000. Those who had been offering $200,000 were opting out altogether. Throughout the fall, the hits kept coming. Washington Mutual collapsed. Wachovia was sold off. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson went before Congress begging for money, looking as if he'd seen a ghost. "It got to the point where I didn't want to pick up the paper or turn on the TV," says LaRoe. "The mantra I kept singing was 'This is perfect, guys. This is perfect...
...Oswald is such a dear. He can just get a little carried away when he’s singing alto.”Thus began my flaming flight to the back of the church. At first I felt real sheepish. I tried not to look at anyone, I kept my head down. But then I remembered why I was hoofing it back there in the first place: wasn’t I due what all these people already had? They all had hymnals, and I bet half of them sang flatter than Old Man Grumpy. So I lifted my dress...