Perspective

The Lehman meltdown

BY YALMAN ONARAN AND JOHN HELYAR BLOOMBERG NEWS

It was the afternoon of Sept. 9, and tensions were rising in the 31st-floor office of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard S. Fuld Jr. - Sunday, November 16, 2008

Dear Conservative, It is wholly a pleasure to be of service. Yes, I know, these are times that try conservatives’ souls. The sunshine soldiers left long ago, and we survivors are left to sit on the ground and tell sad stories of the death of our favorite theories. I get a lot of calls from patients like you, still in mourning after the presidential election. Here is Dr. Greenberg’s Rx for the political blues: Remember that the political pendulum swings back, as surely as it did forth, this time after a long period when conservative ideas—and candidates—were in the ascendant. - Sunday, November 16, 2008

The police, and neighbors, help prevent crime

PHILIP MARTIN

Inormally do not pick up my cell phone if it goes off while I’m driving. And I almost never answer it unless I recognize the caller—life is too short to listen to political robocalls. - Sunday, November 16, 2008

The government needs a new plan for wild horse program

BY SANDRA CHEREB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENO, Nev. — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management needs to consider euthanizing wild horses or selling many of them to reduce spiraling costs of keeping them in long-term holding pens, said a government report Monday. - Sunday, November 16, 2008