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...have entered the one-strike-and-you're-out era. One lost job. One medical emergency. One bad risk or misjudgment of the heart. "I've seen more people lose their houses in the past year than in the previous nine years put together," Wagoner said one recent afternoon, as gray skies hung low over the vast horizon. "It sounds crazy," he continued, "but I'd say unless you're making over $350,000 a year, the more you're paid, the more vulnerable you are. If you lose a job, you're going to have a hard time finding...
...Stay Well, or Lose It All What's an American dream story without a lucky break? Joseph Zachery's took the form of a mysterious stranger who pulled to the side of the road one day in 1986. An older white guy, slowing his car to ask a strapping black teenager why he was running down the street. Zachery, who was 19 at the time, could think of no benign reason why this man might be interested in him, but instead of ignoring the driver and running on, he gasped out an answer. His car wouldn't start...
...Perhaps the main reason that people lose faith in their governments is that they believe the people in charge are either incompetent or dishonest. The average person must wonder whether anyone is in charge when the forecasts of bank failure rates are unbelievably low at the same time that the Administration is debating whether it may have to nationalize Citigroup (C) or Bank of America...
...were livid at his failure to act in defense of the beleaguered Gazans. "Abbas embarrassed us," says one Fatah official charged with delivering Abbas portraits in the camp. "Sometimes we force people to take the posters, but they never put them up." But Abbas may be about to lose a lot more than pride of place for his portrait in the seething refugee camps...
...easily receive weapons by sea, by land from Syria or with help from Hizballah. And a Hamas victory in Lebanon could be the beginning of the end of Fatah. "We already lost Jordan and Syria," says another Fatah commander in Lebanon. "All of them sympathize with Hamas. If we lose Lebanon, then Fatah and all of what it represents will be over...