My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will.

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There was no answer at his home on Thursday, and he couldn't be reached for comment.

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Now the chancellor is hoping and wishing that the answer is no, because his backbenchers would be incandescent with rage if yet more public money were to go into these bruised banks.

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"All I do is answer his emails because no one knows how to reach him, " Joy says.

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