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...situation. "The government failed," says King. "The citizens have to stand up and say, 'Get out of the way. We'll take care of our own.'" And so, for the past week, King, a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool conservative," has been sharing his home with the Meehan-Hoo family, a lesbian couple with three children, ages 5, 7 and 9. "The adults are same sex, and I don't care," he says. "I don't care if they're purple and got horns coming out of their faces. They're Americans first...
...struck out with the relief organizations, he began looking online. He found openyourhome.com started by Serena Howard, a mother of five in Fayetteville, Ark. (So far, Howard says, she has registered almost 30,000 would-be hosts and placed 2,000 evacuees.) That's where King found the Meehan-Hoo family...
Viewers expect pundits to dispense b.s. on cable-news debate shows. But it's considered poor form to use the actual word. Hence the big hoo-ha last week over conservative columnist Robert Novak's performance on CNN's Inside Politics. After Democratic commentator James Carville teased him for trying to show fellow right-wingers that "he's got backbone," Novak shot back, "Well, I think that's bulls___." He then pulled off his mike and stormed...
...fashioned ink-dipped pen. A crackling storyteller and vivid portraitist, the onetime recluse wowed 40 million viewers of the PBS documentary, garnering critics' kudos and a slew of marriage proposals. "It's fun, I guess," he said of his stardom. "But I'm dead set against all the hoo...
...kind of early Mozart piece." Early Salieri would be more like it, but Taylor, who wears an earring rather like the one in Shakespeare's portrait, is learning quickly that all the scholarly world's a stage and all the scholars merely players. "I've always regarded this hoo-ha as slightly absurd," he says, "and once it is over, I shall go back to being as ordinary as dirt." --By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Steven Holmes/London