"For hours, days, I fixated on the patch of sunlight cast against my wall through those barred and grated windows, " Bauer wrote of his time in Iran.

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Crews scrambled to patch trouble spots and build a second sandbag wall to catch any water weaseling through.

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It was another week of shockingly negative economic reports, which you might think has Wall Street economists worried that the economy is running into something more than just a brief soft patch (their popular term of recent weeks).

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