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...Mercer hit shows the songwriter's generosity. In 1958 he received, on two pages torn from a desk calendar, a scrawled suggestion from a Youngstown, Ohio, housewife, Sadie Vimmerstedt. "I want you to write a song for me," she wrote. "Based on ?I want to to be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart.' I know you could add a little story to the title and please me." Not only did Mercer add a little - no, a lot ("And that's when I'll discover that revenge is sweet, / When I sit there applauding from...
...scissors chomp into the metalicized surface of the cardboard. Two or three snips later a rhomboid shape drops free. Fingers pick it up and start crimping and bending it, propping it against the toy-sized model building. Eventually, it is taped to the little construct (think of it as a three-dimensional sketch) and the architect, Frank Gehry, starts musing about what it does - and does not do - for his design. By and large, he seems, tentatively, to like its effect more than he dislikes it. For the moment, it stays...
...necessarily. Last year the global insurance industry paid out a record $49 billion in claims, including $23 billion for U.S. hurricane damage, according to the reinsurance firm Swiss Re. There is plenty of money sloshing around the global- insurance pool to handle Katrina claims, and the Federal Government will pick up the tab for flood damage. One concern for consumers is that many insurers, facing hurricane-related claims, may pull out of the state, setting off a homeowner scramble for new policies. Only a month after state regulators approved a 21% rate hike, Nationwide Insurance announced that it wouldn...
...might not be enough to get everyone's support. House Speaker Dennis Hastert added his voice to those of influential Republicans signaling they may oppose the White House's quick pick of a military officer to run CIA. "The Speaker believes they should not have a military person leading the CIA, a civilian agency," Ron Bonjean, Hastert's communications director, told TIME this evening. Bonjean was confirming the tone of comments Hastert made at an appearance in Aurora, Ill., in which Hastert praised Goss and said moving Hayden to the CIA smacked of a "power grab" by Negroponte-adding that...
...officials expect that Adm. Bert Calland, a Navy SEAL, will step down in the same time-frame as Goss, leaving Negroponte and Hayden-likely with White House input-to pick a new deputy CIA director. Negroponte said at the White House that he is "seriously looking at" Stephen Kappes for that post-which would be a signal to the Agency's career workforce that one of their own would be returning to power after protesting Goss early on. The widely respected Kappes was named deputy CIA director for operations, in charge of the spy corps, under Director George Tenet...