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...cleaner than them"--down the Pacific Coast Highway. For nearly four hours, Young, 59, talked about how facing death has affected his music; the recent death of his father; his sons, both of whom have cerebral palsy; and his early days in a funk band with Super Freak Rick James...
...possibly downtown. Galveston residents started voluntarily evacuating Monday, a full five days before the storm was expected to hit. Wednesday, it became mandatory. Mindful of the problems in New Orleans, the city had buses available Wednesday morning to carry people out of the city. Early in the week, Governor Rick Perry recalled the Texas National Guard as well as Texas Task Force 1 from Louisiana for possible search and rescue duty. The Salvation Army, already hard pressed by Katrina, gathered mobile kitchens and equipment from the west...
...Huckabee was tutoring only 1,755 Katrina kids. Texas has 41,000, with 19,000 more expected to arrive. Those numbers left some state officials skeptical that the feds would really come through. Comptroller Carole Strayhorn, who will run against incumbent Rick Perry in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary, challenged him to ask the legislature for $1.2 billion in hurricane-related funds. (He de- clined.) Texas educators are worried that they will be punished in the form of even less federal cash if Katrina's influx keeps them from meeting the conditions of Bush's No Child Left Behind...
Despite Marcos' petition, PCGG commissioner Rick Abcede is confident the sale will go ahead. "The government needs money to put into the treasury," he says. "And the Imelda jewels are the immediate answer." The government hopes the jewelry might sell for as much as $20 million. But legal action by Marcos blocked previously planned auctions in 2003 and 2004. "If Imelda wants to buy the jewels, she's free to do it," Abcede says. "But the Bureau of Internal Revenue might run after...
...Rick Tsai CHIP CZAR Don't tell Tsai, 54, the new CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), that replacing a legend is daunting. Chip mogul Morris Chang, who founded TSMC in 1987 and built it into the world's largest manufacturer of custom-made chips, named Tsai, a 15-year TSMC veteran, his successor. (Chang remains chairman.) Tsai is already forecasting a gaudy 43% quarterly gross-profit margin for the $8 billion company. Tsai knows TSMC inside out, having held nearly every senior position, and has lived up to his strong nickname: Buffalo. --By Joyce Huang/Taipei...