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...Lake Pontchartrain. You could barely see out the windows, the wind was so strong. Just a few minutes earlier, the branches of trees were barely moving. It's certainly a strong storm, but not nearly as powerful as folks feared. And so Gustav arrived with a somewhat diminished bang, the first bands striking just before midnight. For much of Sunday evening, the city, and region, had been bathed in the odd silence that usually precedes hurricanes. As the wind quickened, the street lights shook...
...Instead of marketing to a global standard, one Japanese auto designer is even relying on a mythical serpent to provide the sinuous curves of its latest sports car. The results are edgy yet steeped in Japanese tradition. "You pick up an iPod, and it emanates California cool, just as Bang & Olufsen products feel very Scandinavian," says Tatsuya Matsui, an industrial designer who has created everything from robots to airplane interiors for a Japanese budget airline. "What you see coming out of Japan now are designs that will be loved because they have a feeling of Japanese-ness...
...solid ex-college basketball players and recently retired NBAers. Ideally, you'd get current NBA players, but qualifiers would happen during the NBA season, so the players wouldn't be able to break free. Put the college players and pro retirees in a camp for a month. Bang, the U.S. should be in the Olympics. Handball players and the USOC will tell you that the game is way too technical and that it takes years to learn all the tricks. I'm not convinced that's the case. Who dribbles better than American ballers? The goal on defense...
Once the U.S. team qualifies for the Olympics, go for the pros: take that group of NBA players who've always wanted to be Olympians, put them in a summer camp before the Games, and bang, the U.S. has a medal contender. That's ridiculous, you say. What sports executive would let a multimillion-dollar investment play some silly sport in the off-season? Well, if basketball general managers let their guys play Olympic basketball in the summer and hockey bosses permit their stars to play in the Olympic tournament during their season, why wouldn't they let them hurl...
...made tabloid headlines by being caught in bed with a spacey artist (Daryl Hannah) the night she is supposed to have killed her ex-lover, is allowed to act as one of her attorneys at the murder trial. Finally, the real murderer forces Kelly and the artist to bang noisily on a sculpture while dozens of guests attend a stately memorial service in an adjacent room. Ivan Reitman is the coarsest and canniest of directors; Meatballs, Stripes and Ghostbusters had no subtlety or style, but all profitably exploited Bill Murray's goofy hipness. Here, however, Reitman misreads the audience...