Word: swamp
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...young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have been turning true crime into artful entertainment ever since Alfred Hitchcock dredged up the story of Ed Gein from Psycho's swamp...
...Building a major city on a low-lying swamp in a hurricane corridor is about as intelligent as building a house of cards on a bowling lane. The only way to absolutely protect New Orleans from a Katrina-like situation ever happening again is never to rebuild. It is wrong to blame the Bush Administration for decades of inaction by many, many administrations. Low taxes are not to blame, and less government is not to blame. A society that promotes dependence on government to always get it out of difficulties has only itself to blame. The problems caused...
...hurricane relief after Rita. Of course, that strategy only underscores that this President is clueless. Bush moved quickly when two things of great importance to him were threatened: the Texas oil infrastructure and his poll ratings. Brandon Bittner Royersford, Pennsylvania, U.S. Building a major city on a low-lying swamp in a hurricane corridor is about as intelligent as building a house of cards on a bowling lane. The only way to absolutely protect New Orleans from a Katrina-like situation ever happening again is never to rebuild. It is wrong to blame the Bush Administration for decades of inaction...
...police superintendent Warren Riley will "handle it very seriously," but Riley's record is checkered with suspensions, one involving his alleged failure to act promptly enough after a woman told him that a police officer had threatened to kill her. (Soon after that, her body was found in a swamp, and the case remains unsolved...
EASTON, Pa.—The field looked bad. It played worse. A week ago, Lafayette, Columbia, and a torrential downpour combined to turn the Fisher Field turf into a veritable swamp. Constant rainfall and a broken drainage system hadn’t improved the conditions by kickoff Saturday, despite clear skies. Fortunately for the Crimson, the weather in Boston rivals that in Pennsylvania. “I think it rained almost as much up at Harvard,” senior fullback Kelly Widman said, “and we had a whole practice field of mud, just like...