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FDIC. Among the saddest sights of the early Depression years were the lines of small depositors waiting for hours outside ruined banks in the hope of salvaging at least part of their savings. In 1932 a terrifying 1,456 banks collapsed. The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 provided a federal guarantee of all deposits under $5,000. The American Bankers Association denounced the bill as "unsound, unscientific, unjust and dangerous," and even Roosevelt had his doubts, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. cost little and soon cut bank failures by more than...
...saddest thing Ahmed has ever seen, he says, is the sight of children without their parents. In the Fakhani Street air raid last summer, he came upon three such children wandering dazed in the streets. He took them to his house, where they lived until a home was found for them. Yes, he does feel older than 15. "Because I do a job greater than myself...
...repeated itself several times in Poland, and this manifestation is no less tragic than previous encounters with crackdowns, invasions and oppression. No one has fought for freedom more feverishly than the ten million members of Solidarity, and they have paid a heavy price. It is one of the saddest ironies that for many Eastern bloc nations today, the price of freedom often exceeds the cost of repression...
Larry Fuller's choreography is mostly of the hop, skip and jump variety, rather like a discarded thought from Agnes de Mille's brain. To save the saddest for last, much of the show's score sounds like an aside from Sondheim. Fragmented strains from Pacific Overtures, A Little Night Music, Company and Follies filter through the air like aural ghosts. One ballad, Not a Day Goes By, beautifully captures the bittersweet mystery of love, and the single smash number of the musical, Good Thing Going, has the stamp of permanence about it. Frank Sinatra...
Perhaps the saddest dilemma facing South Florida is the plight of the refugees from Haiti. Law enforcement officials pick up about 500 Haitians a month on Florida's beaches, but probably just as many slip in without getting caught. The 600-mile journey from Haiti is often arduous, a measure of how desperately Haitians want to leave their country. Many sell all their possessions and hire professional smugglers, who often starve them, beat them, or even dump them overboard. Others pool their money to buy a makeshift boat and then hire a local fisherman, who may know little about navigation...