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...with four firsts. Rounding out the AP top five were Florida State (11-1), Arizona State (11-1), and Brigham Young (14-1). The second five: Nebraska (11-2), Penn State (11-2), Colorado (10-2), Tennessee (10-2) and North Carolina (10-2). Alabama was 11th, followed by Louisiana State, Virginia Tech, Miami, Northwestern, Washington, Kansas State, Iowa, Notre Dame, Michigan, Syracuse, Wyoming, Texas, Auburn and Army. With the rout, Florida avenged not only a 24-21 loss to the Seminoles just 33 days ago that knocked them off college football's perch, but last year...
According to a survey by the Memorial Society of North Texas, which seeks to help members arrange economical funerals, homes owned by Loewen, SCI and Louisiana-based Stewart Enterprises (the third largest funeral company) were consistently more expensive than their independent competitors. In Amarillo, Texas, for example, a Loewen home charged $1,638 for the basic services of its funeral director and staff--the "nondeclinable" fee allowed by the Federal Trade Commission, known more casually in the industry as the "cover charge." The other three Amarillo funeral homes in the survey charged an average of $863. A TIME price survey...
...LANDRIEU LOUISIANA...
Democrats looking to reverse their waning fortunes in the South will want to study Mary Landrieu's textbook Louisiana Senate victory. Landrieu, who defeated Republican state senator Woody Jenkins, aggressively seized the ideological middle ground. She reached out to conservatives by calling for lower taxes and a balanced budget while reminding her party's liberal base of her steadfast support for Medicare and her work in the state legislature on behalf of women and children. And at every opportunity she labeled Jenkins an extremist, painting a dire picture of life in "Woody's World," where abortion rights would be curtailed...
Once Huang joined Commerce, his appointment paid dividends. Secretary Brown led a trade mission to China the month after Huang arrived and returned with a $1 billion power-plant project to be financed by the Lippo Group and managed by Entergy Corp., a Louisiana-based concern with heavy interests in Arkansas. Commerce officials say Huang disqualified himself from any matters involving Indonesia because of his work for Lippo. But congressional investigators have uncovered documents to dispute that. They show that shortly after Huang joined the department, he attended two meetings at which officials from several federal agencies discussed ways...