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...game's greats. Hundreds of members - many of whom work in the big banks and law firms that make up the club's neighborhood - rub shoulders with pros on court and in the locker room. "For my teenage years and early twenties, it was the club," says Peter Nicol, 34, a British former world No. 1 who's now coaching at Lambs. "To then play in it every day was something quite special...
...suburbs west of New Orleans, blue tarps provided by FEMA dot the roofs of homes damaged by wind, but there are few in the worst-affected neighborhoods like Lakeview, the Ninth Ward and East New Orleans--a policy defended by the agency. "What's to protect?" asks FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews in Washington. She argues, like the insurance companies, that most of the damage east of New Orleans was from floodwaters, not wind. Tarps, she says, would be a waste of money. "There are still houses left standing, but you wouldn't let any living thing you cared about...
...emergency services." But according to Brown's former boss, then city manager Bill Dashner, as well as current Edmond officials, that job description was overblown. "He was my administrative assistant," Dashner says. "Every now and again, I'd ask him to write me a speech." FEMA public-affairs officer Nicol Andrews acknowledges that Brown started as an intern but says he later helped lead negotiations with the police and fire departments. Asked whether Brown's removal was related to his disputed bio, a Homeland Security official said, "There's clearly been a lot of reporting about his résum?...
...response, Nicol Andrews, deputy strategic director in FEMA's office of public affairs, insists that while Brown began as an intern, he became an "assistant city manager" with a distinguished record of service. "According to Mike Brown," she says, "a large portion [of the points raised by TIME] is very inaccurate...
...against a 30-year heavyweight like Howard, his brief relationship with the electorate remained a crucial issue to the end. Some believed Latham's inexperience was not a problem. "He has a lot to learn, but who doesn't?" said 75-year-old Margaret Nicol outside a bakery in Caboolture, part of the marginal Queensland seat of Longman. For one 79-year-old in a shopping center in the marginal Melbourne seat of Deakin, Medicare Gold was enough to assuage his doubts. "My wife worries that he's just a boy, but I think he should be given...