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Jorge Johnson, 40, moved to Houston about a month after Katrina, after spending several weeks in a Baton Rouge shelter. A construction worker and painter originally from Honduras, Johnson had lived in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He evacuated in his 2003 blue Dodge Caravan with his girlfriend, her sister and her sister's boyfriend. The boyfriend, Dwight Robertson, was Johnson's friend as well, so they all stuck together after the storm...
Lasseter is an old hand at humanizing machines. Cars does it in large part with the detailing of "facial" features. Most car 'toons anthropomorphize their characters by having the headlights serve as the eyes. Lasseter, following a charming Disney short, the 1952 Susie, the Little Blue Coupe, made the windshield the eyes. Cars also has fun turning hood ornaments into mustaches, grilles into mouths. More important, it evokes shifts of mood by the subtle shift of body weight, the low growl of an engine...
...full-size SUVs. Even if gas prices continue killing the segment, the thinking goes, GM could pick up market share. They like York's presence on GM's historically wimpy board. Analysts also figure GM will pay whatever it takes to avoid a Delphi strike. With roughly 6,000 blue-collar workers expected to be left at Delphi, GM "could easily afford to compensate those employees to avoid a labor disruption," notes Prudential Financial analyst Michael Bruynesteyn. And labor bosses know a strike would be mutually assured destruction. Says industry analyst Cole: "Everyone is scared to death...
...Adam N. Scheffler.Other seniors honored by the award are Jenny Davis, Jessica M. Marglin, Michael P. Marotta, Bridget D. Samuels, and Han Yu, all from Dudley House, as well as Class of 2005 members Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, Melissa L. Dell, Philip Dreyfuss, David R. Ferris, Micah N. Fitzerman-Blue, Ryan M. Geraghty, Rebecca Kastleman, and Victoria Wobber.Four students were given honorable mentions: Milena M. Andzelm from Winthrop House, Mark B. Geyer from Adams House, Caitlin W. Hicks from Lowell House, and Kierann E. Smith from Eliot House.—Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...took to become a University officer.For Angela A. Kerr, one of two women in the group, wearing a black pant suit and an affable smile, becoming a police officer meant accomplishing what her mother had not been able to do years earlier.Kerr worked with the University before donning the blue uniform. She says she wanted to see more action than the confines of the Holyoke Center could offer her.Matt M. Ferazzi of Plymouth, Mass., worked as a dispatcher with the department before becoming a full-fledged officer.His father was a policeman before him, which helped him grow up with...