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  • For Harry Anderson, the New Orleans Magic Is Gone

    09/03/2006 7:44:45 AM PDT · by mcg2000 · 53 replies · 2,479+ views
    The New York Times ^ | August 30, 2006 | JOHN SCHWARTZ
    NEW ORLEANS — In New Orleans these days, even a magician can run out of tricks. Harry Anderson, the illusionist, comic and former star of sitcoms like “Night Court” and “Dave’s World,” has lived in New Orleans since 2000, when he left Hollywood with his wife, the former Elizabeth Morgan. They rode out Hurricane Katrina in the French Quarter, in the building that houses Oswald’s Speakeasy, Mr. Anderson’s nightclub. Their home, whose ground floor was given over to Sideshow, their magic and curiosity shop, was in another building in the Quarter. In the weeks after the storm, even before the...
  • GOP Fears in a Bellwether Race [Of defeat in California 50th District (the Cunningham seat)]

    05/29/2006 11:43:01 AM PDT · by Torie · 108 replies · 3,544+ views
    U..S News and World Report ^ | May 29, 2006 | Washington Whispers
    GOP Fears in a Bellwether Race Staffers from the National Republican Congressional Committee are quietly telling GOP House members to prepare for a possible loss in the June 6 special election to fill the seat of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, now in prison for taking bribes. The Southern California district is heavily Republican, but some GOP insiders believe that Democrat Francine Busby will defeat former GOP Rep. Brian Bilbray and go on to win a full term in November. More alarming some worry that a Bilbray defeat could signal the GOP's loss of control of the House. The NRCC has already...
  • Poll Shows Dim View Of Bush, GOP

    05/09/2006 7:56:08 PM PDT · by AmericanMade1776 · 65 replies · 1,397+ views
    CBS ^ | May 9, 2006
    (CBS News) NEW YORK President Bush and the Republican Congress show nearly record low ratings while Democrats are viewed much more favorably in their performance on the issues that matter most to Americans, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.