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...fleeing a Category 3 storm by bus from the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center, the scene of real-life tragedy after Katrina. Along Lake Pontchartrain, meanwhile, contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers are rushing to finish new floodgates on the city's perimeter, working even at night under klieg lights. New levees replacing those wiped out by the hurricane are nearly finished. The result, ironically, is that the Katrina-ravished Ninth Ward, lying devastated behind its new, higher, fortified levee, may now be one of the safer places to live in the city...
...wasn't all sweetness and klieg lights. I was always thirsty. I was often hungry. When I walked down the street I would involuntarily clench and unclench my fists, as if I were the Thing. I woke in the wee hours so often I no longer bothered to wake my husband to tell him about it. And Ritalin made my toes hurt. O.K., technically it was the wall I was kicking that made my toes hurt. I was trying to get my kids downstairs to school, and they were moving with the speed of treacle on asphalt. This is their...
Once the debt is gone, once the tax code is reformed, once California gets its fair share from Washington, Arnold could direct the klieg lights where they really belong—on preparing California for the future, and abolishing confusing voter initiatives that mandate irresponsible spending increases and guarantee fiscal insanity. And he could target investments in classrooms and mass transit, fix a broken workers’ compensation system, and help attract back the jobs that are fleeing for less expensive states. But he cannot be The People’s Governor until he stops just acting...
...Chinese hurdler, Shi Dongpeng, who placed fifth at the Zagreb meet?could finally help correct the nation's lackluster track record. In Sydney, China won just one track medal, and that came in the less glamorous sport of racewalking. Japan has a proud history in the marathon, but the klieg lights are far brighter in the sprinting events, and success in Athens would further electrify a nation already riding high on the exploits of exported baseballers, such as Hideki Matsui and Ichiro Suzuki, who have proved that in addition to precise pitching, Japanese can also smack a ball with considerable...
Many of my native species (Cantabridgius ante-professionalius ambitious) had fled our summer habitats in Washington and on Wall Street for cooler temperatures, and hotter klieg lights, closer to home. According to a spokesperson for Boston 2004, the city’s convention host committee, more than 400 Harvard students volunteered (I’m sure the Republicans will have a precise number for their convention). An Office of Career Services official, who—oddly—did not want to be named, said it was the first time in his memory that anything had rivaled financial services companies...