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...because he believes the real-estate market is a bubble. He donated $10 million for a stadium project in Queens, N.Y., then negotiated to draw out the payments. Battling entrenched corporate bigwigs was a central tenet in his raising $2.5 billion for his own hedge fund. "I'm not Robin Hood," Icahn says, "but it's great when you can make a lot of money by helping all shareholders." Some would say that's just cover for his brand of opportunism. For Parsons, it doesn't really matter. Carl Icahn isn't folding. --With reporting by Unmesh Kher, Daren Fonda...
...says director Barry Sonnenfeld, who saw an early print of Squid and promptly cast Daniels, 50, in the big-budget camper comedy R.V. "He's frightening in his coldness." In R.V., Daniels plays one of the "nicest folks you'd ever want to get away from," says co-star Robin Williams. "He can give that sense that, as sweet as he is, a cloud can come at any moment...
...rebuild the eroding coasts and levees. Although I know that my immediate family and friends are safe, my family has lost all its material possessions. I am sad and angry but not broken. I am alive. I am one of the fortunate ones. But what about my neighbors? Robin Rocque San Diego I am an evacuee from Metairie, Louisiana. The majority of people on the Gulf Coast, even those of us who left before the storm hit land, were in a state of denial. That was in part because we've faced hurricanes and evacuations before and in part because...
...Staff writer Robin M. Peguero can be reached at peguero@fas.harvard.edu...
...Continental Airlines, based in Houston, offered Katrina evacuees one-way tickets anywhere in the country but 22-year-old Robin Miller and her family couldn't take the offer because they didn't all have valid IDs. Instead, the Miller family planned to take a Greyhound bus to Atlanta. As the storm headed more westerly, some decided to chance yet another storm. Ronald Mills, a 49-year-old New Orleans truck driver who rescued about 200 people by flat boat, said he plans to stick out Rita. He was staying at a hotel in Brenham, Texas, and had applied...