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...close enough in the pre-election polls to give the liberal lion a scare. (The final outcome was Kennedy's closest race since his first election, in 1962.) Then Romney's biggest turnaround opportunity presented itself. In 1999 he was recruited to take over the scandal-ridden Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and dig it out of a nearly $400 million operating deficit by 2002. The zest with which he did it, rallying 23,000 volunteers behind him, made him a celebrity, with an added aura of grace for having pulled it off in the aftermath of 9/11...
...Today, the relatively isolated and snowbound Minami Uonuma City is old and emptying out; the cavernous bullet train station is literally empty on the day I visit. The hospital stopped offering childbirth services in 2002, and the local economy is on life support. "The government's finances are deficit-ridden," says Saito. "We're under great pressure to control spending...
...programs in the black, without sacrificing quality. I accompany one the center's physical therapists on a home visit to an elderly couple who live in a drafty house they built themselves. The 61-year-old husband (the couple asked not to be named) has been mostly bed-ridden for seven years, since he broke several vertebrae in a fall. The visits, which cost around $60 each, are funded almost entirely by the government in keeping with Japan's system of socialized medicine, but they allow the man to continue living at home. It would cost the government around...
...While Kim's family has not been harassed since the tragedy, neighbors haven't exactly gone out of their way to console the shame-ridden family. "We didn't want them to know, but then they found out," she says. And with almost a sigh of relief, the diminutive Kim adds, "After killing so many people, it is good he committed suicide...
...what? / I’m a cartoon, you’re a full moon, let’s stay up.” This is Bright Eyes at some of its best: youthfully articulate, refreshingly sentimental. It’s during these moments, within the mostly disjointed and angst-ridden “Cassadaga,” that flashes of simple honesty become insights into the album’s main theme: Oberst’s personal longing for love in a world of uncertainty and pain. In the song “Make a Plan to Love...