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...days after evacuating his home in Slidell, Louisiana, which housed half a century of memorabilia, and was razed by Hurricane Katrina. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in 1949 at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped on stage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes from customers," he boasted.) A collaborator with artists from Eric Clapton to Roy Clark, the frequent Grammy nominee won the statue for his 1982 album, Alright Again...
...tried to go out there and be confident in myself in my first college game, on the biggest stage I’ve played on in my life,” O’Hagan said. “I just got more confident out there and wanted to go out and lead the offense...
...better be. Since joining the E.U. last year, Poland's been on something of a roll. The country has enjoyed impressive growth (an expected 4% this year), booming exports of food and some manufactured goods to the rest of the Union, and a higher profile on the world stage. This has instilled a new confidence in the burgeoning entrepreneurial class, emboldening its members to demand solutions to problems like the 17.9% unemployment rate, stifling bureaucracy and spiraling government spending. "I'd like to slam all those politicians in the head and shake them!" shouts Andrzej Kuzmicki, 40, owner...
...freely, nearly every group--from hard-hit farmers to federal contractors--is angling for its piece of the action. The Federal Government is forking over as much as $800 million a day to cover everything from temporary housing and debris removal to generators and bottled water. The next stage of the gold rush should take place near the end of October, when the White House expects to return to Congress for another cash infusion, an Administration official tells TIME...
...Ahmadinejad's words are unlikely to satisfy U.S. and European objections to Iran's nuclear plans. That could set the stage for further confrontation when the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency meets in Vienna on September 19. The IAEA is expected to discuss U.S. and European plans to refer the case of Iran's alleged nuclear violations to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, although it is not clear that the U.S. has enough votes to move in that direction immediately...