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Every single purchase during a natural-disaster-relief operation is billed to a four-digit federal code. In accounting terms, Hurricane Charley was known as 1539 and 1543. Ivan had nine codes, starting with 1548, one for each state affected by the emergency. Hurricane Katrina is such a vast and expensive undertaking that it has been assigned 45 separate codes: 1602 for Florida, 1603 for Louisiana, 1604 for Mississippi and 1605 for Alabama, plus one for every state taking in evacuees. For months and perhaps years to come, those codes will be used by the Federal Government...
Edward Dolnick, a journalist, centers his story on Charley Hill, a London undercover cop raised mostly in the U.S. who has made a specialty of tracking down purloined Goyas and Bruegels before they are fenced to Bahrain or, worse, ditched in a trash compactor. It's one of Hill's missions in life to disabuse people of the idea that art thieves are cultivated smoothies. "The thieves who steal works of art," he tells us, "were usually stealing hubcaps a few years earlier...
...Jamie dismantled the collegiate field and was named to the Olympic four headed to Athens, Griffin bought into coach Charley Butt’s advice about technique. He had the genes, he had the erg scores, and he had the competitive spirit with his brother keeping him going—all he had to do was put Butt’s advice to work...
...have a great coach [in Charley Butt], but it’s [also] a testament to the fact that everybody worked really, really hard this year,” second varsity five-seat Alex Phillips said of this year’s squad...
...echoes are not uncommon: "He is just polluting this awesome genre. This is such an abomination"; "A discrace [sic] to humanity [is] Troy on stage and the white girls down front dancing for him." Those who say the debate about segregation vs. integration is strictly musical usually point to Charley Pride, a genuine black superstar who had 29 No. 1 country hits from 1966 to 1989. But when Pride made his debut, his label didn't send out publicity photos or put him on album covers, and while many black artists have since given country a shot...