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Louisiana staggered under the blow, but others all along the Gulf Coast were ravaged as Katrina, still spitting tornadoes and spraying wood and shingles and glass, made her way slowly up to Canada to die at last. A sudden twirl coming ashore meant that the Mississippi coast got smacked the hardest. In many towns, what the winds spared the floods claimed, as the gusts flung water into the streets in storm surges as high as 25 ft. "It was like the houses were playing bumper cars around here," said Biloxi fisherman Alan Layne. There were cemetery coffins tossed around...
...charisma that a lot of contemporary actors have is the threat of madness. A cockeyed glint, a sudden shout, a shift of body weight--these tricks keep you watching, like a doting pathologist, to catch the moment an actor goes edifyingly nuts. It's sexy, this promise to grab viewers and lead them down a treacherous path. It's also the surest route to an Oscar...
...bans offenders from coming within a quarter mile of any park, school or day-care center, unconstitutionally limits free travel inside a state. In New Jersey, Steven Elwell, 35, is speaking out against a local ordinance that could keep him from living near any bus stop. "All of a sudden they are telling me where I can live and where I can't live. They are trying to take everything away from me," says Elwell, a former teacher who served one year in prison after pleading guilty to the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl seven years...
...body of work is diverse, but he is best known for challenging the conventional wisdom that famine is caused by a shortage of food. Sen pointed out that famine-struck areas often had enough food; the real culprit was a disturbance in the economic system?for instance, a sudden rise in prices?which made the food inaccessible. In his new book, Sen directs his iconoclastic zeal on the perception of India?held by many abroad, and also within the country?as a place with only one kind of culture, which is spiritual and otherworldly, and one kind of society, which...
...committee’s search for Harper’s successor is an especially sensitive one considering the circumstances of Harper’s sudden and acrimonious departure. In a resignation letter to Summers last month, Harper criticized the Corporation for stifling discussion of the president’s performance and salary raise, calling on Summers to step down...