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- I'll Go by the Book, As Long as It's My Mother's
The Book wasn't cool. It showed up at my house, sent by my mother, and got tucked away. - D.C. Plans Repairs To Public Housing
The District's public housing authority will borrow nearly $78 million on the private bond market to shore up and improve aging public housing complexes in the next three years, federal and local officials said yesterday. - Family, Academy Mourn Midshipman Who Fell From Dorm
The body of Jay Michael Dixon, 21, was found Saturday outside a campus dormitory. - Jury Says Official's Mass Firing Of Whites Was Racially Based
New Orleans's first black district attorney discriminated against 43 whites when he fired them en masse and replaced them with blacks upon taking office in 2003, a federal jury decided Wednesday. The jury awarded the employees about $1.8 million in back pay and damages. - Nats Choose Announcer
Jim Clarke, a former radio and public address announcer in New Orleans, is chosen to be the Nats' public address announcer. - Shirley Ann Grau's House, on the Street Where You Live
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. - Capital One to Buy New Orleans Bank for $5.35B
The deal gives McLean-based Capital One, best known for selling credit cards and other loans on TV or through the mail, its first network of branches. Hibernia has the dominant market share for retail deposits in Louisiana. - Red Riding Hood With a Cajun Beat
Fat Tuesday has come and gone, but the rollicking rhythms of a New Orleans jamboree are still pulsing at Imagination Stage, now presenting the new children's musical "Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood." With the exuberance of a Mardi Gras float wheeling through the Big Easy, writer and composer Joan Cushing has turned a 2001 picture book (text by Mike Artell, illustrations by Jim Harris) into a clever stage production whose tunes explode with Louisiana zest. - Marking Washington's Birthday
There were probably only two places to party this Presidents' Day weekend: Mount Vernon or this bustling border town where George Washington, or Jorge Washington, as he is also called here, is venerated with a vengeance. - 'Love Song': A Familiar Yet Tuneless Southern Ditty
In "A Love Song for Bobby Long," John Travolta sets off on the journey from movie star to character actor, a treacherous venture undertaken by many a middle-aged Heartthrob facing the great, gaping What Comes After. - New and Notable Movies, Arts, Sports and More
Concerts
ODETTA -- Today at 2 p.m. The folk singer's songs have influenced Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Tracy Chapman. The Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Rd., Vienna. $20. 703-218-6500 or 703-938-2404. - The Case of Sally Miller
THE LOST GERMAN SLAVE GIRL
The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans - Tiny Corner of La. Mourns 6 Soldiers
HOUMA, La., Jan. 10 -- Bradley Bergeron grew up, as they say around here, "way down on the bayou," a sliver of high ground south of town called Upper Little Caillou. Bergeron was no homecoming king, no valedictorian, just a nice kid who blended in with his class. But he was a star on that day last October when the "Black Sheep," this town's National Guard unit, left for Iraq. - It's Time to Celebrate Automotive Design Diversity
LOS ANGELES -- I once panned the wide-angled, hip-hop, big-tire looks of the Cadillac Escalade sport-utility vehicle that's so popular here and across the rest of the country. I was the victim of acculturation, an assimilationist obliteration of the funk of my black New Orleans childhood. - Bipartisan Leaders Named to Head Panel on Tax Code Reform
Former senators Connie Mack (R-Fla.) and John Breaux (D-La.) will be tapped today to lead a bipartisan panel tasked to remake and simplify the unwieldy U.S. tax code, administration officials said last night. - Hollywood Reels In Another Kingfish
King of all media: James Carville , the ubiquitous pundit, author and screen star (remember "The War Room" and "K Street"?), can lay claim to another title: movie mogul. He's the co-producer behind a remake of "All the King's Men," now filming in his beloved Louisiana. - A Jambalaya That Doesn't Keep
SOUTHERN FRIED DIVORCE
A Woman Unleashes Her Hound and His Dog in the Big Easy - Safety, Clean Fuels May Steal Thunder at Auto Shows
Yuletide is a peculiar season in the automotive industry. There are the usual closing events -- corporate parties, inventory-dumping year-end sales and annual sales reports. But there also is a rush to begin anew, a preoccupation manifested in preparations for upcoming car shows. - New Orleans's Musical Gumbo
If you're on a budget this holiday, it might not be wise to buy "Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans." Not because it costs $50. Heck, no: That's cheap. But because once you've heard, seen -- and seemingly tasted -- this terrific box set, you'll rush out and spend whatever it takes to get to the Big Easy, pronto. - Tauzin to Head Drug Trade Group
Retiring Rep. W.J. "Billy" Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce until he stepped down from that post earlier this year after complaints about his job hunting, will be the trade group's new chief.