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...daunting trick for cities like Miami Gardens will be making the federal dollars work effectively and, perhaps more important, equitably. The triage process may require local officials to identify not only those homeowners who are most likely to make the best use of the aid - the most long-term, creditworthy bets - but also those who were genuinely victimized by predatory or unscrupulous lenders as opposed to those who simply made bad financial decisions (especially property flippers) and took on more housing debt than they and their salaries could ever afford. "We want folks to be able to hold...
...Marsh, in his director's statement, adds a certain amount of tosh about this being some sort of "mythic quest," in that Petit claims to have dreamed about doing his trick well before the Trade Center was built or even imagined. But Petit was a Paris street performer (and an authority on picking pockets) before he started walking wires, so one rather suspects that proposition...
Miley Cyrus Breakout; out now The production spares no '80s trick--from spoken interludes to overdubs that do for Miley's voice what Vaseline on the lens did for Joan Collins. Still, there's a modern girl in there, one with parental issues (Breakout) and fears for the future (Wake Up America) even though hers is secure...
...come the primitive, do-it-yourself sensibility of punk and the slam-dancing and stage-diving mayhem that went with it. "We rip off everyone equally," says Shannon Hoon, lead singer of Blind Melon, which has sold more than 1 million copies of its first album this year. The trick is to sample riffs from somebody who's so long gone that the modern repetition of it sounds fresh and new. Even the theatrical group Kiss -- whose members wore demonic makeup onstage -- is cited as an influence by today's alternative rockers. "I had the worst crush...
Alcoholic energy drinks are a crime against taste--but worse, they trick your brain into believing you're not as drunk as you are. Bottom line: have a real beer instead. If your beverage of choice carries a silly name like Joose, you're probably too young to drink anyway...