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...which your life becomes." The "that which" clues the viewer to the ornate language the cowboys will try wrapping their tongues and minds around. It's as if they'd just read two novels - one by Ned Buntline, the other by Henry James - and are determined to arrange a shotgun marriage of the pair...
...shotgun marriage between Zimbabwe's government and opposition was never going to be easy, but it could falter at the first hurdle. Despite signing a power-sharing agreement on Monday, President Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival and new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have failed to agree on who will control which portfolios in a new cabinet. A meeting between the two men on Thursday aimed at resolving the issue broke up without agreement, as reports began to trickle in of violence breaking out in different parts of the country between supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF and the opposition...
...just Frannie we're talking about here. There were also $29 billion in government loans behind Bear Stearns' shotgun marriage to JPMorgan Chase & Co. in March, although since they were made by the Federal Reserve--which can print its own money--it's not a direct cost to taxpayers. Then there are the $4.5 trillion in bank deposits insured by the FDIC. The first big bank bust of the current crisis, that of mortgage specialist IndyMac, cost an estimated $8.9 billion, leaving the FDIC with just $45 billion on hand to cover a likely rash of failures. But while...
That may be true, but it is sort of like boasting that Richard Simmons has never been more intimidating. The Corps has yet to address the city's two most vulnerable points: the Gulf Outlet, a storm-surge shotgun pointed at the city's gut; and a "funnel" at the mouth of the Industrial Canal, another little-used Corps channel. The Corps has said $15 billion will be required to meet a 100-year safety standard; so far it has spent only about $2 billion. "That should give you an idea of how much work there still...
...returned there as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. What I saw upon arriving was a city that looked more like a Brazilian favela than one of America's most crucial ports. Riding through the streets on the back of a boat steered by a pair of shotgun-toting sheriff's deputies from Indiana, I saw colorless bodies bobbing in the water, often tethered to light posts. Water covered the top of the doors of my parents' church. God, my mom says, told her to flee the city a day or so before the storm's arrival...