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...dead. "Thank you, baby, need your help!" Nagin says, reaching into a car to shake hands. An African-American man in dreadlocks hops out of his car to have his picture taken with the mayor in the middle of the street. "When hard-core 'hood brothers do that, sumpin? is up," says the mayor with a grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ray Nagin Win Redemption in New Orleans? | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...Sumpin? is indeed up. The open primary for New Orleans mayor is April 22 and the big surprise - to outsiders, at least - is that Mayor Ray Nagin is in the race and expected to easily win a spot for the May runoff. Ever since victims of Hurricane Katrina languished for days at the Superdome without food, water or buses to evacuate, politicians from the Louisiana statehouse to the White House have seen their poll numbers slump to new lows. Nagin, who took the brunt of verbal abuse from evacuees, tried to win them back in January by championing New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ray Nagin Win Redemption in New Orleans? | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...readers' scanning pleasure, here lies the quickie Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard Faculty Style. Six profs, five specialties and five ways to get some food, some liquor, some drama, some movie action, or to just plain get a little sumpin'-sumpin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHOPPING IN CAMBRIDGE | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...MONKEES (Colgem). A monkee is a species of trained beatle, of which four have been assembled for a zany new TV series. Their first album begins with their television theme song: "We're the young generation, and we've got sumpin' to say." Actually, they don't say so much (This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day, Buy Me a Dog) but they do have some engagingly catchy songs, notably Lust Train to Clarksville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...right hand that he "took to be a pistol. I saw a round object like a gun barrel." Two defense witnesses, a county construction employee and a stockyard worker, added that they later saw two Negroes leaning over the bleeding bodies "pickin' up a knife" and "sumpin' . . . looked like a pistol"-neatly explaining why no weapons were found on the victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: A License to Kill | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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