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...city's business leaders, but recently at least one other candidate-Ron Forman, the CEO of the non-profit Audubon Nature Institute, which runs the Audubon Zoo-has become a favorite with moneyed Republican backers and business leaders. Forman, who is a dynamic speaker like Landrieu, has done a bang-up job fund-raising for Audubon post-Katrina, but has none of the political baggage of Nagin or Landrieu. Ironically, Forman's wife Sally just happens to be Mayor Nagin's chief spokeswoman. That just goes to show that no matter how much else changes in Louisiana, politics down there...
...those illusions? I write stories that turn out to be set in the West because the West has been the context of my life, but I don't think about things like that. I think about the characters, [but] I have often pointed out that the shoot-'em-up, bang-bang, fast-draw West is a Hollywood invention. It didn't exist. And anybody who knows much about the famous characters of the West knows that it didn't exist, so I have said that. But when I'm writing a story or novel set in the West, [that version...
...easy to remember back when it suited him. That Alito's name did not turn up in a search of CAP papers demanded by Ted Kennedy has been seen as vindication for the judge-a sign that Democrats were overreaching on this minor matter. The hearing's ?biggest bang? on Wednesday, writes the Washington Post, thus ended in a whimper...
...very seriously these days. The line about a coach being only as good as his players is simplistic, but contains more than a kernel of truth. All he can do is help them to perform at the outer edges of their ability. To this end, loads of money, whiz-bang training facilities and umpteen assistants usually help, but boiled down, all sports are pretty simple. In testing times, the wise coach steers his team back to first principles. In Bill's speech of 20 years ago, old stagers like Bennett, Jones and Buchanan might just hear an echo of their...
...scientists believe the Big Bang led to greater upheaval in the world than the American invasion of Iraq...