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...less than lucky when it comes to New Orleans. A little more than half (56%) said they do not think parts of New Orleans that might flood again should be rebuilt. Currently, that means almost all of New Orleans. The locals hope, needless to say, that the feds will kick in enough money to improve their odds. "Luck," as baseball executive Branch Rickey once said, "is the residue of design...
...movie, but that description wouldn't be fair to this engaging study of love and lust from John Cameron Mitchell, star and author of the off-Broadway hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch. At the film's center is Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), a sex therapist who gets no kick from sex. She and her friends illustrate, amusingly and quite graphically, the way the artist class of post-9/11 urbanites gropes toward intimacy. Not weird enough for you? O.K., it's also a musical...
...Senator's remarks on election night were "a point-of-no-return speech." Lieberman was doing a series of interviews, mostly with Connecticut reporters, and plans some campaign stops on Thursday with Democrats who supported him and will continue to do so. Organizers shied away from calling it a kick-off tour, instead saying it is a new phase of the campaign. "He's committed," Gerstein said. "He feels liberated and he feels very strongly it's the right thing to do." Gerstein said the Senator is prepared to have some tough conversations with senior Democrats, perhaps even former President...
...about as good as the Republic of Korea can do. Mike Stark Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S. Foul Play I was encouraged to read d.J. Taylor's Essay on the continuing erosion of sportsmanship [July 17]. I have a suggestion for promoting cleaner play in football and eliminating the unsatisfactory penalty-kick shoot-out in the case of a tie. If the score is still even after the 30 minutes of extra time, I suggest that the team that drew fewer red and yellow penalty cards be awarded the victory. John Miller London Taylor said that George Orwell described sport...
...OPEC, the energy cartel that supplies a quarter of the oil consumed in the U.S., said it will sell more to make up for the Alaska shortfall, and the Department of Energy is figuring out if the government should tap its strategic reserves, which would start to kick in within a day or two. But those promises did little to allay oil traders, who frantically anticipate other potential supply disruptions in geopolitically strained locales from Nigeria to Venezuela to Iran. "We have problems all over the place," says Phil Flynn, senior market analyst and vice president at Alaron Trading...