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...After the plans to help the states, cut taxes, and provide new infrastructure for the nation, the programs get a little off track...
...rest of us, case studies say, become obedient and quiet. An instant camaraderie unifies strangers on a sinking ship or a bombed-out subway car. The overriding sound track is silence. After the Hudson crash, TV reporters badgered passengers, incredulous that there had not been shoving and hysteria. But if we asked all the survivors of all history's mishaps, we would hear the same patient reply: No, people were pretty calm, actually. Which is not to say they weren't terrified...
...Senate Finance Committee today for his confirmation hearings, he will be interrogated about his plans to deal with the flailing economy, failing banks and rising foreclosures. But the most disconcerting questions Geithner is likely to face may have to do not with the current financial maelstrom but with his track record with the Internal Revenue Service - an agency he would oversee as Treasury Secretary...
...have you been preparing for this task? I have just tried to create a lot of space around my head - which of course is challenging because I live in a family and I have a job. I've kept a notebook with me, just trying to keep track of everything and stop in my tracks whenever possible...
...means, may be a reaction against his father's swashbuckling art. His father also marked Wyeth's life strongly in one other way. In 1945 the elder Wyeth, along with his 4-year-old grandson by Andrew's brother Nat, was killed when his car stalled on a railroad track. It was an event that Wyeth's biographer, Richard Meryman, says split Wyeth's life in two, so that he spent the rest of it "processing the first 28 years - a long, unraveling of love and guilt and rage...