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...What impressed me about Paul was that he was very realistic about who he was. He knew the world of hyperbole and distortion he was in. That meant he maintained a certain amount of privacy. He was generous and a pillar of integrity. He was loyal and self-effacing. His commitment to his profession was serious, as was his commitment to social responsibility and especially to his family. He had a life that had real meaning and that will for some time...
...last saw him a few months ago. He'd been in and out of the hospital. I knew what the deal was, and he knew what the deal was, and we didn't talk about it. We talked about what was on our minds: the election, politics, what needed to be done. Ours was a relationship that didn't need a lot of words...
...knew I needed help," says Fogarty, 58. "But going and sharing it all seemed too confronting," and as a pensioner, she worried what counseling would cost. Quietly desperate, she combed the Internet for help - and found ptsd-online.org, set up by psychologist Britt Klein, of Swinburne University of Technology, to trial Web-based clinical treatment for people with post-traumatic stress disorder. After a phone interview to confirm her diagnosis, Fogarty was accepted into the e-therapy program. "I had a real gut feeling, Oh, this is just the right thing," she says. "It just seemed like, here is something...
Michigan Sherrill Freeborough owns two Saturn dealerships outside Lansing. She was nervous about the proposed bailout and relieved when it failed. "My fear was they didn't have time to study it," she says. "I wanted them to make sure they knew what they were doing, and that it was the right thing to do. My fear was this was too quickly put together. I was surprised and relieved when it didn't pass." Freeborough says she's a "little more confident today that Congress will do the right thing. Now, I feel like they're going to take...
...hard to get the votes. There wasn't "some of the bursting of arms that I've seen in some votes over the past 12 years," said Representative Chip Pickering, a Mississippi Republican. Why wouldn't there be a harder push on such a crucial bill? "The leaders knew people have deeply held convictions on this," Pickering said. "Everyone knew what the stakes were...