Government waste and corruption were at the heart of June's massive street demonstrations.
But I find myself missing the intensity of expectation that spring brings to the farm, the sense that the weather is rushing to meet deadline, a linear thrust toward the heart of May.
A Vietnamese bank has foiled an attempted cyber heist that involved the use of fraudulent messages, the same technique at the heart of February's theft from the Bangladesh central bank.
Launching his national infrastructure commission, the chancellor promised that infrastructure investment would be at the heart of November's spending review and that the new independent body would think "dispassionately and independently" about Britain's infrastructure needs.
The historic mansion at the heart of Mar-a-Lago is not going to be underwater, "but they are going to have more and more issues with health and safety, access, and infrastructure," said Keren Bolter, chief scientist for the firm.
But there is a fantasy at the heart of "October Road" more insidious than that, the idea that working-class people stay that way not because of diminishing opportunities or difficulty with setting goals, but because they lack a sense of adventure, the desire like Nick's to see everything, to travel to Europe.
The intention in Istanbul was to calmly march on Taksim Square, the heart of June's uprising, but the police had other ideas, blocking off all entrances to the square before opening fire on the peaceful crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets.
But attendance was at the heart of the January investigation: It found that students who missed large swaths of the school year still passed classes.
Drawings of the founder of Islam were also at the heart of the January attack on Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices that killed 12 people.
A less radical compromise open to CBS would be to delay the miniseries past the scheduled Nov. 16 and 18 air dates, the heart of the November sweeps period.
