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...King's house in Attleboro, Mass., southwest of Boston, had rooms to spare. And after days spent watching wrenching hurricane coverage on Fox News, he and his family decided that bureaucrats might not be the best judges of the situation. "The government failed," says King. "The citizens have to stand up and say, 'Get out of the way. We'll take care of our own.'" And so, for the past week, King, a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool conservative," has been sharing his home with the Meehan-Hoo family, a lesbian couple with three children, ages...
...carries on a frank, two-way conversation with a fossilized vertebra at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.) His behavior grows increasingly pathological: at one point, he embarks on a bid to convince his fellow students not to buy newspapers from the homeless man in Harvard Square who sells Spare Change News...
...importing about one-tenth of its refined petroleum needs. With no clear indication of when America may return to full refining capacity, and with no extra refining capacity anywhere else in the world, the U.S. thirst for oil products has created a new global petroleum crunch. Already spare European supplies have been sent to the U.S. where they can attract a premium. That would seem to lock in relatively high prices at pumps on both sides of the Atlantic for months to come. How did we get in this mess? After all, it's not as if oil companies...
...during which time the poor and sick were also abandoned in the city. Louisiana officials (Senator Mary Landrieu’s threat to literally “punch” their critics notwithstanding) should have to answer why, if levy repairs were so positively critical, they could not spare the few million dollars they say were necessary. Similarly, federal officials should have to answer why, given the complete state and local incompetence, they did not intercede more swiftly and simply take charge of affairs on the ground from the outset. A terrible human tragedy has unfolded; we would only...
...could catch up later, the way I had with TiVo and instant messaging. But then, just recently, the future dawned -before I was prepared for it, as usual. The writer Andrew Sullivan, whose work I admired but who I barely knew, called to ask me if I could spare five days to ?guest blog? on his influential website, Andrew Sullivan.com. I confessed to him that I didn?t know how to blog. He asked me if I knew how to write an e-mail. I said that I did and he told me that in that case I also knew...