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...rebuild a business wiped clean by Hurricane Katrina? Start by dodging the M16s. A week after the storm pummeled the Gulf Coast in late August, Tim Spero, the chief technology officer for the NBA's New Orleans Hornets, drove to the team's training facility in Westwego, La., with a fellow Hornets employee and two friends. Their mission: to retrieve the team's teal uniforms, a batch of video equipment and a few computers to ship to another city when--or if--the Hornets started their preseason training camp. Reports of violence and looting had spread to Westwego; the team...
...Orleans. Hours before gale-force winds started picking up steam, Mott and the families of three Hornets workers boarded team owner George Shinn's private plane for San Antonio, Texas. Basketball administration chief Steve Martin, a New Orleans native, woke up that morning expecting to ride out the storm. He finally relented at 8 a.m., when he called Mott to ask whether there was any room on the plane for him, his wife and his son. "If we stayed in New Orleans, we could have been homeless," says Martin. "We could have been in a shelter." Mott had three extra...
...shrugs off his missteps, preferring to emphasize the overall vigor of his campaign to storm the council. And he challenges his opponents to refute the substance of his points...
Experimenters and lunatics from Lou Reed to Merzbow have been biding their time for decades, stirring up trouble just off stage, while their shrieking sounds wait for the proper time to storm the music world and blow your ears...
...pair of Iraqi officers holed up in an airfield control tower-but at the last moment one of their own senior officer swans in and countermands the orders. In short, Swofford and his unit have nothing to show for the half year they spend in the eye of Desert Storm...