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...Stewart, start your Tivo: On Tuesday, Michael "Heck Of A Job" Brown, who resigned Sept. 12 as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will testify before the House select committee looking into the government's Katrina response. The chair, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), said Brown agreed to appear voluntarily. The former director can be expected to elaborate on an interview he gave the New York Times two days after he quit, in which he blamed Louisiana state officials but also made it clear that the administration responded sluggishly after he told top officials that "things were...
...wrong? America does hold powerful women to impossible standards. Just look at another woman trying to win over Americans on TV this fall. Before jail, Martha Stewart was a rarity among women TV hosts. She didn't flirt, cajole or beg us to like her; she just coolly, competently insisted that we respect her. Now, ankle-bracelet free, she's launched a new daytime show, Martha, and a new Martha Stewart: vulnerable, self-deprecating, coquettish and fun. She jokes about prison! She wears a tiara! Publicizing her new edition of The Apprentice, the media mogul and notoriously demanding boss...
...been out of prison since March and free of her ankle bracelet since Sept. 1. Now, with her conviction for lying about a stock sale on appeal, Martha Stewart is back in business. The indomitable domestic diva launches a new daily show this week and enters prime time Sept. 21 in the Donald Trump role on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. She talked to TIME's Michele Orecklin...
...executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding, and those are the characteristics you'll see on The Apprentice. If you want to see a tyrannical Martha, you'll have to watch Cybill Shepherd. [Shepherd has played Stewart in two TV movies, with the second to air later this month...
There are still a lot of people in city planning and engineering who are glad that Hastert spoke their innermost thoughts. "They should just move the whole city to higher ground," says UCLA's Stewart. "There's nothing you can do about the fundamental problem, which is that it's 9 ft. [on average] below sea level." Of course, Venice is also ever threatened by water, but nobody suggests just letting it sink. Postdisaster reconstruction is therefore likely to focus on strengthening the levees, but some experts in the field see that as a losing proposition in the long term...