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...instead of flying to New Hampshire for cross-country pre-season training, she stepped onto an Entergy plane with her brother, mother, and father, a lawyer for the company that provides power to Louisiana and much of the South, leaving behind a city that was silent, still, and mostly boarded up, bracing for Hurricane Katrina's blow...
...father was working out of Entergy's Little Rock office, contemplating a massive repowering of isolated neighborhoods. Sloan's mother—a French professor at Tulane University in New Orleans—and brother considered moving in with an aunt in Washington, D.C. Sloan plans to go back to Cambridge, joining the Harvard cross-country team on Friday...
...Google IPO and watch Showtime TV shows. So I have to admit that even though these diets will never work, there is something beautiful in that people believe each time. I'd rather have a society with that attitude, after all, than one in which everybody and his brother looks good in a half shirt...
DIED. KING FAHD BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD, 84, monarch who kept Saudi Arabia stable during two decades of regional and domestic crises; after several strokes and diabetes left him largely incapacitated for the past decade; in Riyadh. Fahd's rule, which now passes to his half-brother Crown Prince Abdullah, was marked by an effort to balance his country's traditionalist religious faith with the imperative to build a modern state. A fan of the U.S., he transformed the once primitive desert kingdom into a gleaming bastion of skyscrapers and expressways and oversaw a massive expansion of Islam...
...kind of urban-comedy M*A*S*H--a sitcom that would take a hit movie in a new direction. Before Greenblatt took over at Showtime, his production company made Ridley's UPN drama Platinum, a savvy look at the hip-hop business. Ridley also wrote Undercover Brother, a 2002 send-up of blaxploitation movies. "He's a really funny writer but also very intelligent," says Greenblatt. "I thought he would bring the right combination of humor and analysis to the series...