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...million gift to endow a chair in economics at the University of Missouri, Lay is now trying to have the money returned. Last September, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he personally sought to have the money - as yet unused - transferred back to Houston to assist 14 charities in relief efforts, including preacher-author Joel Osteen's megachurch. Five months later in February this year, the trustee for Lay's assets went to the campus in Columbia, Mo., seeking the money to pay for legal fees instead. The trustee went home empty-handed, but now university alumni - only recently apprised...
...these figures are significantly above the historical average. And yet they qualify as a relief compared to last year's awful season. With 28 named storms, 15 hurricanes and seven qualifying as major - including a record four Category 5's, the most powerful. But then, last season wasn't predicted to be as bad as it turned out, so there's little reason to be reassured. Hurricane experts believe we entered a period of increased hurricane threat back in 1995, with atmospheric conditions that combine for a sort of perfect storm, as it were, of hurricane-favoring conditions. Among them...
Samaritan's Purse is active in the relief effort in Sudan. What do you think of the recent Darfur peace deal? I don't trust the [Sudanese] government. I don't trust them for a second. These are men who have murdered and murdered and murdered, and they're still in power. How can we trust them...
...fitting that Thomas' successors adorn the front of the Australian building. Painted to the left of the front doors is Paddy Bedford's Thoowoonggoonarrin, the former stockman's maternal homeland. In tones of blue-black and pinky-white, his diamond-sharp eye excavates the land from above. Raised in relief across three storeys of the fa?ade above are the jimbala spearheads of Lena Nyadbi's paternal country. These spearheads were also used to tattoo the skin of young initiates, and even from oceans away, the architects could feel the artist's hand marking the project. "She was driving it completely...
...knowing that it wasn't going into the pocket of a laird.'" Last year Assynt's residents followed suit. The place had been stagnating, partly because the Vesteys had an agreement with Britain's Inland Revenue to keep the land in its natural state in exchange for inheritance-tax relief. Locals claimed that when they wanted land to start businesses or build houses, the Vesteys often declined their requests. "I have refused one or two cases for houses that seem-ed rather unsuitable places for them to be," says Edmund Vestey, 73, adding that such a "wonderful, wild wilderness...