Word: walke
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...much for "Masters of the Universe." On Monday, being an employee of Lehman Bros. looked about as much fun as a perp walk. Overnight, the 158-year-old Wall Street behemoth filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a stunning collapse that may leave thousands of employees without jobs. With $639 billion in assets, the firm's filing is the largest in history. Throughout the day, as media crews hovered around the entrance to the firm's Midtown Manhattan headquarters, some of Wall Street's best and brightest trickled out onto the pavement, their faces crestfallen and their ties yanked askew...
...husband Ian and my father are trying to get close enough so that Michael and Shannon can walk out of the flooding. They live in an older neighborhood just outside the Loop that's about a 15 minute drive from my parent's downtown apartment. They've been gone at least an hour and haven't gotten close yet. They have to thread their way around the flooded areas, and keep getting turned around...
...Somehow, the pastor managed to find a florist, a piano player - and a baker. We were shocked, and so grateful. It was a beautiful ceremony, if a touch bittersweet. Holly's parents, who evacuated Brazoria County ahead of Ike, couldn't get to Houston. She asked my dad to walk her down the aisle. My daughter was thrilled she got to be a flower girl as planned...
...Rachel Carson. Obviously, we have to have energy here, but why we don't have alternative energy, like Brazil, is a scandal. As far as what I can do, I have to travel quickly, therefore I use transportation that uses energy, but I hardly use gas anymore. I'll walk...
...someone marinated in plenty viscerally understand what it feels like to be poor or excluded? He brushes the question aside with visible irritation. "I don't have this deterministic view of life that you can only care about something if you directly experience it," he says. "You can't walk a mile in everybody's shoes...