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...course, community banks, despite weathering the credit storm relatively well so far, may soon face their own troubles. Unlike larger banks, most community banks were not big in the residential-mortgage business. Instead, they made a lot of loans to local developers. As the economy sours, more and more of those loans are starting to go bad. Some analysts have predicted that as many as 1,000 banks could fail as a result of the nation's economic woes. Many of those banks will be of the smaller variety...
...evidence. Nevertheless, Williamson will be obeying the expulsion order and will leave Argentina shortly, according to Father Christian Bouchacourt, South American superior for the Society of St Pius X. "He already intended to leave before the order was signed," said Bouchacourt. "We're a little tired of all this storm...
...10—a black pen on white scroll paper creation that utilized modern animation techniques to convey what Rice describes as “a sense of restlessness seeking peace, a feeling of being always in the midst of roiling phenomena but sensing, out of this storm, a glimmer of quiet, a possible calming unity.”“Given the extraordinary diversity of the work displayed,” Anderson says, “what unifies the collection is that there is a compelling quality to every piece. You keep thinking about each of [them] even...
...Nine Lives is a reminder of New Orleans as it existed before - and still exists in spite of - its darkest hour. After Hurricane Katrina, Baum conducted nearly 400 interviews with more than 200 subjects to recreate the experiences of nine New Orleanians, not only in the harrowing post-storm chaos of lawlessness and death, but in the four decades leading up to Katrina, starting with Hurricane Betsy in 1965. As the years roll by, each of the nine characters, who range from a trumpet-playing parish coroner to a transsexual bar owner, overcome their own personal storms while the city...
...able to capture the essence of New Orleans as skillfully as Baum. Through exceptionally reported slices of life, Nine Lives reveals New Orleans as a vibrant, otherworldly land - a city in its own orbit. Beyond all the death, destruction and lives upended, one of the great jolts of the storm was that it forced a city that has always been somewhat out of step with the rest of American life to confront itself, in all its quirks and vulnerabilities. Baum's is a compassionate account of a most unique American city's long, strange journey...