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...beginning, there was the Book of Genesis. And it was good. Only much later did different people begin to think of it in different ways. Steve Fintel, for instance. It is 8:30 on a sleepy Sunday morning in Metairie, Louisiana, and Fintel, a 49-year-old Eucharistic minister at St. Benilde Catholic Church, is playing Bette Midler's 1989 hit Wind Beneath My Wings to his Sunday school class--three 11-year-old boys and one girl. "Did I ever tell you you're my hero?" Midler sings. Fintel directs his four charges to chapter 12 of Genesis, where...
Peace in the Middle East and Bosnia may be elusive, but the Clinton Administration has brokered a sensitive cease-fire in Louisiana. Vice President Al Gore flew to Baton Rouge last Friday to preside over the reconciliation of two Democrats: Senate candidate Mary Landrieu and Congressman Cleo Fields, the state's leading black politician. The Gore intervention might seem like an awful lot of White House muscle to settle a neighborhood brawl. But the stakes are high in Louisiana's closely contested Senate race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week...
...last week's congressional battle the issue was the fate of a pulp mill owned by the Ketchikan Pulp Co., a division of Louisiana-Pacific Corp. that employs 600. It's a high-cost operation that relied on below-market-cost timber from the Tongass to make dissolving pulp, a cellulose product that shows up in everything from rayon to ice cream. Tongass timber was cheap because in 1954 the Federal Government gave KPC a 50-year contract guaranteeing the mill rights to vast amounts of Alaskan timber at fire-sale prices. In 1990 Congress tried to redress this giveaway...
While the Senator blustered, Louisiana-Pacific was getting ready to toss the mill overboard. Why? As a financial proposition, logging in remote, southeast Alaska is problematic because of the high cost of Alaskan labor and the expense of building logging roads. Now, with pulp prices falling, the company is facing increasing competition from mills with cheap labor and fast-growing trees...
...Hopwood ruling now affects only Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, which are covered by the Fifth Circuit...