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...mansion in a high-stakes card game. The details of this larceny are recounted against the carefree jangle of Matthew’s showtune worthy keyboards. The Furnaces aren’t all fun and games, however. The album’s strongest track, “Teach Me Sweetheart,” is a harrowing portrait of loneliness, sexual frustration, and paranoia. Eleanor sings from the perspective of a young widow wasting away in the loveless home of her deceased husband’s family. She invites “brave young bachelors” to rescue her from...
...roughly 13 years. "He might as well have put up a 'For Sale' sign over [his] office." Specifically, Ryan was found guilty of selling his office, both as secretary of state for eight years and later as the state's governor from 1998 to 2002, for campaign cash through sweetheart leases and coveted low-digit license plates, as well as using office workers to do such campaign legwork as selling fundraising tickets on government time; prosecutors even charged that Ryan's own inspector general's office was rigged to clear Ryan of any whiff of wrongdoing in his administration...
...someone in the de facto auxiliary club of this company town means the spouse doesn't live in the city at all. A lobbyist friend (people do have them, even now) recently rattled off six current and former legislators who had come to Washington married to a "high school sweetheart type" back home and then found themselves married a second time to someone a little more "in the game"--a staff member or lobbyist, usually. My friend added, for emphasis, "Newt Gingrich has done it at least twice." People don't just want not to be "the wife"--they also...
...sure to improve is levee maintenance. For decades, the levee system was overseen by a multitude of local boards that were packed with political appointees, few of them experts in flood control. By the time Katrina arrived, the boards had a reputation for being more effective at handing out sweetheart contracts than at maintaining levees. Last month a special session of the state legislature succeeded in consolidating the boards into two bodies (one for each bank of the Mississippi) consisting of engineers and other specialists. The consolidation, which must still be approved by voters in September, was an essential signal...
...talking and conversing," said Yvonne Wheeler, a spokeswoman for Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial. "His condition is really looking good. They're just taking every precautionary measure. Recovery looks very positive." Added Peter Banko, the hospital's administrator, "He is a true gentleman... I hate to say sweetheart because it makes me sound like a female, but he is wonderful to be around. He is joking with the staff." Whittington was expected to be taken out of intensive care Monday afternoon and moved to a trauma step-down unit in preparation for discharge...