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Three weeks after Ike swept across Galveston, 74-year-old Francis Sullivan - "I'll be 75 on the 17th if I make it!" - is on her front stoop and eyeing a small triangular wooden trophy case on her living room floor amid a stinking pile of family belongings. The box contains the flag that had draped her husband's casket six years ago. It is an ironic coincidence, a reporter's happenstance, brought about by a random turn down a neighborhood street that looks like so many others on the island - lifeless homes with leafless, saltwater-poisoned trees, battered fences...
...those campaigns in terms of TV advertising, debates, major interviews, major speeches. We do not ever try to balance a criticism of one candidate with a criticism of another. We take each individual claim or statement on its merits and let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes they pile up more on one side and sometimes on another, but that's not our fault...
...Where are the chips falling? It goes back and forth. Early on, we were getting lots of gripes from Republicans because there were a lot of things about McCain we were criticizing. Lately, it looks like there's a pile of Obama claims. People always ask us if we have a rating system. You'd want to make some allowance for the big whoppers versus the little ones, [but] that'd just be our opinion. It's the voters' job to figure out what they're going to make of all of this...
...obvious was the ability of real estate, which has always had a slightly rakish air, to drag even the most respectable and conservative parts of the economy down with it. Other problem areas, like Social Security, also have a Ponzi-scheme flavor: the claims on some pile of money exceed the size of the pile. In many of these schemes, the average American plays both the victim and Ponzi himself...
...hands, I swear—”“Ollie,” said The Stable Boy. “It’s me. I have the money.”“Blazes!” he cried, extracting himself from the pile. “Oi didn’t realize ew it was, sir. ’Ow on earth did you find all that coin?” Ollie had seen the Stable Boy’s wheelbarrow.“I worked out an arrangement with my employer, Monsieur Jacques...