There were rumors about arrests and violence on the edges of the city, and a few sparely written stories in the English-language newspapers, which I read and then immediately forgot, as if they were dispatches from a foreign country.
There's something apocalyptic, too, about the absence of people, as though these were dispatches from a different calamity, of the cinematic kind, in which the cities endure but the citizens do not — just a few survivors roaming around, foraging for food.
The e-mails, many of which were dispatches between the traders, show that Mr. Tourre told colleagues at Goldman that the mortgage security was "selected by ACA/Paulson," referring to Mr. Paulson's hedge fund and ACA Management, the independent company Goldman hired to choose the mortgages in the deal.
She made no concessions to the brevity of skirts and dearth of real jewellery in the 1960s, and the fashion advice pieces she wrote for the Daily Telegraph were dispatches from another, pre-mini and tights, world, where elbow-length black gloves went with a simple, mid-calf cocktail frock, and an above-elbow pair were de rigeur with a strapless ballgown.
Jeff Taylor, writing from Jacksonville, AL, (the site almost always attaches datelines to its articles, as if such analytical and theoretical columns were dispatches from the real America) put down nearly 6,000 words on Sarah Palin the spillover from a 3,000-word 3,000-wordGoing reviewthat ran in The American Cofservative (also not a terrible place for the left-thinkinGoing
