input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN.

MISSED AND MOURNED.

"Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain." _Longfellow_.

"Be they Gobblealls not coming home?" asked Nanny Barton, as she stood at her gate, while some of her neighbours came slowly out of church, about two years later.

"My man, he did ask Shepherd Tomkins," said Betsy Seddon, "and all the answer he got was, 'You don't desarve it, not you.' As if my man had gone out with that there rabble rout!"

"And I'm sure mine only went up to see what they were after, and helped to put out the fire beside."

"Ay," said Cox, behind her, "but not till the soldiers were come."

"Time they did come!" said Seddon. "Rain comes through the roof, and that there Lawyer Brent won't have nothing done to it till the captain comes home."

"Yes," added Morris, "and when I spoke to him about my windows, as got blown in, he said 'cottages were no end of expense, and we hadn't treated them so as they would wish to come back nohow.'"

"Think of their bearing malice!" cried Nanny Barton.

"I don't believe as how they does," responded the other Nanny. "They have sent the coals and the blankets all the same."

"Bear malice!" said Mrs Truman, who had just walked up. "No, no. Why, Parson Harford have said over and over again, when he gave a shilling or so or a meat order, to help a poor lady that was ill, that 'twas by madam's wish." 1. Who would do nothing about the roof?
2. What was wrong with it?
3. What was he waiting on?
4. What did he say about cottages?
5. Who did he say this to?
6. When?
7. Was it in response to issues with Morris' home?
8. Who was Nanny Barton concerned with?
9. What was her concern?
10. Where was she standing?
11. What was happening?
12. After how long?
13. What did Betsy's husband help do?
14. Who helped the poor lady that was ill?
15. How did he help?
16. Who wanted hi to do this?
17. Who heard him say this?
numbered_answers: 1. Lawyer Brent
2. Rain comes through
3. The captain to come home
4. They were no end of expense
5. Morris
6. unknown
7. Yes
8. The Gobblealls
9. If they were not coming home
10. At her gate
11. Some of her neighbours came slowly out of church
12. Two years later
13. He asked Shepherd Tomkins
14. Parson Harford
15. He gave a shilling or so or a meat order
16. Madam's
17. Mrs Truman

input: Francois Hollande, the newly-inaugurated President of France, may be as notable for what he has not done as for what he has.

He has never held national elective office despite being at the center of French politics for more than a decade, and he has never been married despite a three-decade relationship and four children with Segolene Royale, another of the country's top Socialist politicians.

Hollande led the Socialist Party for 11 years and was leader when Royale ran unsuccessfully for president against Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.

Hollande and Royale split up a month before that election, and he is now seeing journalist Valerie Trierweiler, who appeared, smiling with him, as he celebrated his victory Sunday.

He immediately spooked markets, and Germany, France's key ally in the European Union, with his victory speech.

"Austerity can no longer be something that is inevitable," he said, apparently undercutting the belt-tightening that his predecessor and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have urged on European countries beset by debt.

Hollande emerged as his party's candidate for president after the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was once considered the Socialist favorite to defeat Sarkozy.

But Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May 2011 after a New York hotel maid alleged that he tried to rape her. Charges against the former IMF chief were later dropped in the United States, but he has been warned he could be investigated in France over accusations he participated in a prostitution ring.

But Hollande was not an accidental candidate despite the way he has come to power, one commentator said. 1. Who is the Newly inaugurated President of France?
2. What is he notable for not doing?
3. how long has he lead the Socialist party?
4. What did he do the the Markets in Germany?
5. What did he say that undercut what his predicessor and the German Chancellor whated the EU countries to do?
6. Who's downfall lead to him emerging as his party's canidate?
7. Who unsuccessfully ran for president against Nicolas Sarkozy?
8. How long has Hollande been the center of French Politics?
9. Would he be considered an Accidental Canidate?
10. Who appeared with him celebrating his victor? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Francois Hollande
2. He has never held national elective office
3. for 11 years
4. He immediately spooked them with his victory speech
5. "Austerity can no longer be something that is inevitable,
6. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
7. Segolene Royale
8. for more than a decade
9. no
10. Valerie Trierweiler

Q: Washington (CNN) -- Mexican drug cartels have used cash and sexual favors as tools to corrupt U.S. border and customs agents, an inspector general investigation has found.

In exchange, agents allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes, protect or escort traffickers or leak sensitive information, said Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security.

Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Edwards cited the Zetas drug cartel as one of the leaders "involved increasingly in systematic corruption."

He did not elaborate on how non-cash methods of corruption, like sexual favors, have been used to corrupt agents.

Since October 2004, 127 Customs and Border Protection employees have been arrested or indicted for acts of corruption, said agency Commissioner Alan Bersin, speaking at the same hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon's offensive against the drug cartels, combined with a surge in the hiring of border agents in recent years, have multiplied the risks of corruption, Bersin said.

Today, the Border Patrol counts more than 20,700 agents, more than double its size in 2004. Bersin implied that the rapid hiring spree may have come at the cost of hiring less qualified agents.

"The accelerated hiring pace under which we operated between 2006 and 2008 -- and, frankly, mistakes from which we are learning -- exposed critical organizational and individual vulnerabilities within CBP," he said.

To face this challenge, the commissioner touted the passage of the Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010, which requires that by 2013, all the agency's law enforcement applicants must receive a polygraph test before being hired. It also calls for periodic reinvestigations into the background of its agents.

Answer the following questions:
1. who is the president of Mexico?
2. How many are working for border patrol today?
3. Is this the same as in 2004?
4. How many employees have been arrested?
5. Between what years was the higher hiring rate?
6. who is the acting inspector general mentioned?
7. what organization does he work for?
8. Is cash used for corruption?
9. what about non-cash?
10. what is the non-cash example used?
11. what drug cartel is mentioned?
12. who is being corrupted?
13. what tests are the agents supposed to receive?
14. by when?
15. according to what act?
16. who is the commissioner mentioned?
17. where was he speaking?
18. Do agents leak private information?
19. What else do they do?
20. What did Edwards call the corruption?
A:
1. Felipe Calderon
2. more than 20,700 agents,
3. no
4. 127
5. between 2006 and 2008
6. Charles Edwards,
7. Department of Homeland Security.
8. yes
9. yes
10. sexual favors
11. Zetas drug cartel
12. U.S. border and customs agents,
13. a polygraph test
14. by 2013
15. he Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010,
16. Alan Bersin
17. a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs.
18. yes
19. allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes,
20. systematic corruption.