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...Frank. Maybe it was Davis' broken home or his height (5 ft. 6 in. in his tap shoes) or his funny face, all big nose and jutting jaw, or the car crash that took his left eye, but Davis was a howling void of insecurity that drowned out all other emotion. He craved affection, especially from white people, preferably famous, preferably Frank. In Haygood's telling, Davis' marriages, his compulsive gift giving, his surprising conversion to Judaism, even his support for the civil rights movement, all play like bids for applause, just another snappy routine...
...time you try to be didactic, you end up not being able to get people excited. You sound like a Sunday morning talk show,” he says. “Our world [on the show] deals with a world of idealism and possibility. If we can tap into that, that’s great...
...their running jerseys to show team allegiance. And there was still plenty of support for Boston in the crowd. Spectators on the sidelines would shout “Go Red Sox” as I ran, and every now and then, someone passing me in Cubs gear would tap me on the back or shout, “We’ll see you in the Series...
Even when a company's operating income goes down, its profits can still go up if it has tax credits on tap. PPL Montana LLC, a subsidiary of PPL Corp., the holding company for such utilities as Pennsylvania Power & Light and Montana Power, reported that "although operating income from synfuel operations declined in 2002 compared to 2001, the synfuel projects contributed $7 million more to net income after recording tax credits...
...locked up in the mountains 200 miles west of Denver. The U.S. spent billions of dollars to figure out a way to mine the stuff, then gave up and walked away. Why Canada has succeeded at creating a homemade source of alternative fuel while America has failed to tap its resources is testimony to Washington's short attention span when it comes to energy concerns...