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DIED. MICHAEL HOUSER, 40, singer-guitarist for the rock group Widespread Panic, among the most popular of the jam bands influenced by the Grateful Dead; of pancreatic cancer; in Athens, Ga...
DIED. W.W. LAW, 79, president of the Savannah, Ga., chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. from 1950 to '76, who engineered desegregation of the city and later helped develop a museum dedicated to the area's civil rights movement; in Savannah. He chose to be known by his initials so it would be harder for people to demean him by calling him by his first name...
State schools, meanwhile, are being deluged. At Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga., freshman applications doubled this year. "That's just stunning for us," says Joe Head, dean of enrollment services. He attributes the increase to heightened job insecurity, layoffs, a post-9/11 desire among parents to keep the kids close to home and the meltdown in stock savings...
CONVICTED. SIDNEY DORSEY, 62, ex-sheriff of DeKalb County, Ga.; of masterminding the December 2000 murder of his elected successor, Derwin Brown; in Albany, Ga. Prosecutors said the defeated Dorsey, who was also charged with racketeering, wanted to be reinstated and thus hired hit men to gun down Brown, who had promised to clean up department corruption (see TIME, Feb. 5, 2001). Dorsey faces a mandatory life sentence...
...grew up in the small town of Rincon, Ga., and retains an easygoing Southern accent. But make no mistake--Burns moves fast. Within four hours after two competitors' aircraft hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, Burns realized the likely effect on Delta Airlines' revenue and shifted $450 million, borrowed on lines of credit, into Delta's checking account. Just days later, Burns persuaded banks to follow through with an additional $1.2 billion in cash from a financing deal initiated on Sept...