01/19/2006

Alive and well under a mountain of debt

Remember the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where two men rush a wheelbarrow through a plague-affected village shouting: ''Bring out your dead''? A family heaves a body on to the pile, whereupon it lifts his head and says: ''But I'm not dead yet!'' One man whacks him with a cudgel and says: ''Now you are.''
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