Lehman Bros Online"The fact that a corporate entity has some of the same qualities as an individual - a name, a personality, a tax burden - can make it hard not to read its demise as that of a superman who survived war and disease . . . and so why not this? The Lehman Web site, which said nothing about the firm’s bankruptcy filing apart from one ( Read more... )

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Inside a gaspump.
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Ariel view of Houston petro-chemical site, early June.

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Colleen,
Your father's bike is now owned by a guy named Nick:

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I have a porch now. Last night, while having a smoke in this smelly hammock no one uses anymore, a black cat visited. He paid little attention to me, but just sniffed around the porch. He must be the neighborhood watch ( Read more... )

Claire is at a reunion in North Carolina, meeting up with kids she hasn't seen since she was 14. Some guy told the group he was "going to the package store", and Claire asked him to bring back stamps.

I'm jealous.