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...found a bar, and watched the whole game - right up through Favre's overtime interception, which ended up costing the Packers the game. A handful of Utah locals who were watching the game asked if I were depressed by Favre's fatal mistake. "Yeah, but we win or lose on his shoulders, precisely because he takes those sorts of risky throws," I responded. "How upset can you be at him? We wouldn't have made it this far without him." (See a brief history of un-retirement...
...determined to rescue homeowners from foreclosure as the housing market crashed - launched its $75 billion Making Home Affordable program. The program not only failed to reverse a rise in foreclosures but also caused many homeowners to crash their credit ratings or throw monthly payments into homes they would ultimately lose anyway. Economists, meanwhile, say government efforts to keep people in homes they can't afford are painfully prolonging the nation's housing crisis - which doesn't help anyone...
...lonesome when the family leaves. I have no one to raise a fuss over my neckties and my haircuts, my shoes and my clothes generally." He still had plenty of friends left in Washington; it's just that he was finding, as every President finds, that many of them lose their minds. House Speaker Sam Rayburn warned him about it: "Sycophants will stand in the rain a week to see you and will treat you like a king," he said. "They'll come sliding in and tell you you're the greatest man alive - but you know and I know...
...obviously had nothing to lose,” Matera said. “They’re the ranked team. It was a great experience. Unfortunately, we didn’t have our best showing...
When Sgt. James Crowley arrested Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates for disorderly conduct in July, it's unlikely that Crowley foresaw what was to come: a nationwide debate over race relations that made even Mr. President lose his cool, and an ensuing "beer summit" at the White House that was meant to diffuse the tension surrounding the controversial incident. Though an October night at the bar seemed to indicate that Gates and Crowley have since kissed and made up, the brouhaha evidently has yet to subside...