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...profits for ExxonMobil, which announced quarterly earnings of $8.4 billion. "Listen, we've got people like this that are working for a living, who are paying higher prices for their gasoline--it's like a tax," said President George Bush, standing next to local resident Michael Wade at Fayard's service station in Biloxi, Miss., where a gallon of regular sold for $2.96. "The first thing is to make sure that nobody is getting cheated...
...DIED. FAYARD NICHOLAS, 91, tap dancer extraordinaire who, with brother Harold, performed gravity-defying fantasias with his feet, inspiring generations of dancers from Fred Astaire to Savion Glover; in Toluca Lake, Calif. The self-taught Nicholas Brothers leaped to prominence in the '30s, performing flips and splits with ease. Their acrobatics landed them roles in nearly 30 films--including 1943's Stormy Weather, whose finale features a flawless leapfrog down a spiral staircase. But because of Jim Crow--era practices, the African-American brothers rarely got starring or speaking parts...
...JUDY FAYARD...
DIED. HAROLD NICHOLAS, 79, acrobatic tap dancer who with his older brother Fayard helped break the color barrier in Hollywood musicals; in New York City. Early in their career, the brothers' dizzying footwork and preternatural elegance was displayed onscreen, though never in the same scenes as their white counterparts. In 1948, however, their virtuosity landed them alongside Gene Kelly in The Pirate. The brothers awed such dance-world luminaries as Fred Astaire and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who called the Nicholas brothers "the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever." They were honored by the Kennedy Center...
...from slashing subsidies to local cultural and sports associations and firing 147 contract employees, most of whom worked with the immigrant community. Choosing enforcement over crime prevention, they nearly doubled the local police force from 36 to 60 officers. "The police have a new attitude," says Deputy Mayor Hubert Fayard. "Before, they weren't respected. Now they will seek contact. If they see delinquents, they will hunt them down. Our message to them is, 'Go somewhere else...