To the attorney general's credit, his office added specific allegations--the internal e-mails showing Merrill's Henry Blodget and others off their guard--to the vague sense out there that the game was rigged generally, and especially during the frenzy of the Internet era.

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Porto caught United off guard with their flying start and might have had the entire tie wrapped up if they had taken their chances and not gifted Wayne Rooney an equaliser.

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Strangers saving strangers, neighbors pulling neighbors out of fast-flooding houses, policemen jumping off their patrol boats and SUVs, the Coast Guard rescuing people off of roofs and cars, buildings and cellars.

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