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Noero thinks of what might have happened to her apartment at Willow Street and Nashville Avenue, a blue-gray shotgun house that stands not on a foundation, but stilts. Before Katrina, there had been a small front stoop for sitting, a leaky roof, worn wood floors, and five homeless cats, she said. She hasn’t seen anything of it since she left...
...worse part of the past five years, Faust, 50, has led a life more damnable than Christopher Marlowe ever dreamed, saying touching things like "Don't read everything you believe in the newspapers." Then abruptly last week, backed up against a blue-gray November sky, Notre Dame's beleaguered coach finally answered the hate mail of every irate fan in Christendom. Four days before the final game on his contract, Faust gave his notice. "Sometimes you don't know why these things happen," he said of 26 losses in 57 games, the direst total in 97 years of Irish history...
DIED. James H. ("Sleepy Jim") Crowley, 83, last of the great "Four Horsemen" backfield that led Notre Dame to a 19-1 record in the 1923-24 seasons; in Scranton, Pa. The small (160 lbs.), swift Crowley was immortalized with his teammates by Sportswriter Grantland Rice: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...
...presidency in his office in a federal building in downtown Manhattan. The building's air-conditioning system is off because of the national holiday, but the room is not yet hot. Outside, the streets are empty and lifeless, except for a McDonald's. Nixon wears a blue-gray suit, a white shirt and a red-and-white-striped tie. The chair he occupies is backed into a corner of the office. Wide windows on either side of him offer a view of antiquated wooden water tanks on the rooftops of nearby buildings and a sky that is pale blue...
After a disappointing first two days at the Blue-Gray Tennis National Tennis Classic in Montgomery, Ala., the No. 15 Harvard’s men’s tennis team fought back and got a win on Saturday...