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...Fordham sparked fears that other gay Republicans would also soon be forced out of both their closets and their jobs. "Kirk is the fall guy," says gay-rights activist Hilary Rosen. "It's going to be open season on gay Republicans. It's the right wing's perfect storm. They never wanted gays in their party anyway...
...hardscrabble journey from political pariah to rehabbed revolutionary. That general, of course, is none other than former Speaker Gingrich, who has been spotted in Iowa, New Hampshire and other battleground states for more than a year now, taking potshots at the Establishment he helped create and rearming himself to storm the next barricade. TIME POLL THE PRESIDENT...
...Numbers 70,003 Sellout crowd at the Superdome last Monday, to watch the first NFL football game to be played in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina 30,000 Estimated number of people who camped in the stadium on Aug. 29, 2005, hoping to find shelter from the storm...
...been a hurricane in London since last, oh, ever. But there has been an insurer there, Lloyd's, since 1771. And because it's an outfit that historically insured ships, weather is never too far from its mind. Last year Hurricane Katrina turned heads at Lloyd's. The storm didn't just flood New Orleans; it also swept away the insurance industry's trust in its catastrophe modeling, the tool it depends on to evaluate bad-weather risk. The model assumed that a hurricane like Katrina couldn't happen in the same year as two other superstorms...
...that climate change is so serious a threat to their business that they can't wait for government to take the initiative. "The industry is crucial to the functioning of the global economy," says Andrew Logan, energy and finance program director at the ethical-investment organization CERES. As the storm season winds down, activists pray the industry doesn't lose focus. "If there isn't a big hurricane season this year, it could slow things down. That is the larger risk," says Logan...