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Visitors to the state may feel they have stepped into a foreign country, a land of Mardi Gras, Cajun cooking and the Catahoula hound. The flags of six - countries have flown over this state, where the Napoleonic Code still prevails and French is often the first language in the southwestern Cajun country. Louisiana has been home to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, demagogue Huey Long and author Walker Percy. The state, which has the nation's widest gap between rich and poor, is a quirky mix of Catholic and Protestant, oil and sugarcane, jazz and Zydeco...
...Sweating Door Alarm moves smoothly and frequently between planes of reality. Fitch transports the audience from a strange, sickening hospital to an eerie campground in a Southwestern canyon. Soon the campground is overrun with Indians who dance wildly around a TV set/campfire, taking the viewer farther and farther from reality. The transitions from scene to scene are always surprising and often funny. Although simple curiosity about what will come next sustains a lively interest in a play, The Sweating Door Alarm offers much more...
...captured headlines last week, a journalist's sources were stripped bare without the reporter even being notified of the search. In Hamilton County, Ohio, a prosecutor ordered a secret electronic snoop through the records of 35 million telephone calls made between March 1 and June 15 from 655,000 southwestern Ohio lines to find any potential corporate leakers who had called the home or office of Wall Street Journal Pittsburgh bureau reporter Alecia Swasy while she was researching stories that embarrassed Procter & Gamble, a major Cincinnati area employer...
...Conn., in 1975, announced two weeks ago that it will ship its 1,000-worker headquarters to Atlanta. UPS also considered Baltimore, Dallas and Cincinnati, then chose Atlanta, in part on the basis of cheaper housing ($68,000 for a median-priced single-family home, vs. $165,000 in southwestern Connecticut...
...about $8 billion and whose profits last year totaled $1 billion. The state has sold 20.4% of Telmex stock, which represents the majority of voting power, for $1.76 billion. The buyers: a consortium led by Grupo Carso, a Mexico City-based conglomerate headed by entrepreneur Carlos Slim and including Southwestern Bell and France Telecom. But the Federal Communications Commission in Washington is considering regulatory changes that could limit one of Telmex's most lucrative businesses, handling phone calls from the U.S. Salinas is also selling the country's two largest steel mills and a 66% interest in 18 commercial banks...