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...Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said Gustav was a Category 3 storm centered about 175 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and moving northwest near 17 mph. It had weakened slightly, but forecasters expected it to grow more intense by Monday. The storm could bring a surge of up to 14 feet to the coast and rainfall totals of up to 20 inches...
...specter of the potentially devastating storm caused President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to decide to skip the Republican National Convention, which was supposed to begin Monday in St. Paul, Minn. The White House announced that Bush was heading to Texas Monday to monitor emergency response efforts, and Republican officials have already postponed most of Monday's convention activities. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff headed to the region Sunday and planned to stay for the duration of the storm...
...about it, a guy walked by me talking into his cell phone about the James Taylor show. That night, I was on the list to see Death Cab for Cutie, who was playing a few doors down from Nelly, at a bar right near where Moby was DJing. On Monday, I went to the New Orleans Jam-Balaya, where I saw Randy Newman, Terence Blanchard, the Meters and Allen Toussaint. And Tucker Carlson sounded very excited about the jam-band thing with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart that he told me he was going to on Tuesday...
...Democrats, in anticipation of Romney's appointment to the McCain ticket, have been sending out releases attacking the former governor as "one of President Bush's biggest defenders" who is out of touch with working people. On Monday, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe called Romney a "job killer" for his work in the private sector as a corporate manager. Romney responded to the charge by claiming that he had created far more jobs than he ever eliminated...
...open power-sharing talks with the M.D.C. Now a month old, those talks have stalled and, perhaps in an attempt to continue his one-man rule, Mugabe announced last week that he would appoint ministers and regional governors and convene parliament. If that was his intent, it backfired. On Monday, M.D.C. MPs elected one of their own as speaker of the house. Tuesday's scenes were perhaps even more humiliating for the octogenarian president...