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...Terrell might be up the bayou if Landrieu was a good ole girl lighting up the campaign trail. In a state that went for Clinton (the good-ole-boy thing) but soundly rejected Gore in 2000, Landrieu is more homecoming queen turned soccer mom than Big Easy backslapper. One of nine children of former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, she lives in her childhood home when in the state and walks a tightrope that might be described as compassionate conservative Democrat. She is great at delivering the pork (most mayors are grateful supporters), and she looks after the working class...
...dollars instead of the thousand he once earned, he was man enough to show up. He had some country hits in the '60s, and in 1968 played Iago in the L.A. production of an "Othello" musical called "Catch My Soul"; he spoke the lines word-perfect, in his deep bayou drawl, and stole the show. "This Shakespeare was really somethin," he told the L.A. Times. "I wonder what he woulda thought of my records...
March 29-30 Bayou Classic...
There doesn't seem to be much doubt now that Yasser Esam Hamdi was born on the bayou. Or that Hamdi and alleged Taliban turncoat John Walker Lindh were among the holdouts in the Qala-i-Jangi prison riot that day, raising the possibility that the two knew each other. But they were separated immediately after capture because Lindh needed medical attention and Hamdi didn't appear to be injured. In February Hamdi was shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with other suspected al-Qaeda men. "From the very beginning, there was a possibility in everyone's mind that...
...there were still any doubters out there, the Harvard men’s 149-134 victory over the host Owls at the Bayou Classic last weekend should put an end to them...