In my segments, we've been giving advice to retirees all along, way before this crisis happened, and no, it's not hopeless.

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It's actually a hopeless situation, you know--people waiting with their furniture, you know, just waiting to go.

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If you still don't qualify for financial aid, it's still not hopeless.

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Because it's a very hopeless situation.

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It's probably just hopeless.

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It's remarkably short-sighted to dismiss them as hopeless bigots.

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Yes, New York's infatuation with its New York-ness is hopeless and mostly annoying, but in this instance it is really true: There is no hothouse quite like the Yankee hothouse, and to remain emotionally intact, as Rivera has done for so many years, should be held up as some kind of marvel alongside those freakish numbers for saves (608) and postseason earned-run average (0.70).

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