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...Baton Rouge Takes a Battering After spending a week without electricity and access to news, I was happy to see an article on Hurricane Gustav [Sept. 15]. Yet after reading it, I was sorry to see that TIME missed the boat. Nearly the entire two pages were about the city of New Orleans. New Orleans got lucky with Gustav. Baton Rouge, the state capital, is facing the worst electrical damage in its recorded history and isn't even mentioned. Ninety percent of the city was without power after Gustav hit. Thousands of homes were lost or suffered significant damage...
...happy to see your article on Hurricane Gustav [Sept. 15]. Yet after reading it, I was sorry to see that TIME missed the boat. Nearly the entire two pages were about the city of New Orleans. New Orleans got lucky with Gustav. Baton Rouge, the state capital, is facing the worst electrical damage in its recorded history and isn't even mentioned. Ninety percent of the city was without power after Gustav hit. Thousands of homes were lost or suffered significant damage. New Orleans isn't the only city on the Gulf Coast. Sarah Glover, BATON ROUGE...
...David Petraeus, the architect of the U.S. surge policy in Iraq, leaves to take over U.S. Central Command later this fall - a swath of territory from Kazakhstan to Kenya, including Iraq and Afghanistan - he's passing the baton to his former top deputy in Iraq, Gen. Raymond Odierno. The New Jersey-born and bred Odierno, an imposing (6-ft. 5-in.) leader whom the troops call "General O", spent 15 months as Petraeus's number two during the implementation of the surge. His new job will include advising the next President on if and when to pull out U.S. troops...
...former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, also took a robust tone after Russia's invasion of Georgia, though it was David Cameron, the Conservative opposition leader, who raced to Tbilisi in mid-August to blast the Russians while Brown vacationed uncomfortably in Scotland. British Foreign Minister David Miliband took the baton and traveled to Ukraine, another country deeply worried about Moscow's expansionist ambitions. Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, inhabited mostly by ethnic Russians and home to the Russian Black Sea fleet, is one of several areas with allure for Russian irredentists. (It was only in 1954 that Ukrainian-born Soviet leader...
...Baton Rouge was hammered with wind and rain for about three hours. Electrical power flashed on and off for about an hour before it went out for good. In the area near Louisiana State University, the hurricane-force winds blew down trees, fences, power lines and street signs. Some streets had minor flooding. Driving was still treacherous on Monday afternoon with huge tree trunks blocking roadways and traffic lights not functioning. One of the major Baton Rouge hospitals, Our Lady of Lake, had to operate on generator power. "Please stay indoors and please don't be on the road...