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The Best and the Worst of the Week
 The
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
is
expanding its 2003 schedule to include an additional day, creating two four-day
Jazz Fest weekends. Next year's festival will kick off on Thursday, April 24,
instead of on Friday of the first weekend as it has in the past. Fest aficionados
are hoping the extra day might help to ease the crowds that have packed the
Fair Grounds in recent years to take in the music, food and crafts.
Dr. Michael Sullivan ,
associate chairman of the Department
of Radiology at Ochsner Clinic Foundation, recently won the highest honor bestowed
by the Radiological Society of North America -- its Gold Medal. Sullivan, who
also teaches at Tulane University and Louisiana State University's medical schools,
was awarded the prestigious honor for his leadership and devotion to research
and education.
 The
Louisiana Republican Party
shamelessly played the race card and
tried to suppress black turnout during the late stages of the Mary Landrieu-Suzanne
Terrell runoff election. The state GOP bought signs reading, "Mary: If you don't
respect us, don't expect us" and plastered them -- or paid black people to hold
them aloft -- in predominantly African-American neighborhoods.
Nicholas S. Morphis
became
the first attorney in Louisiana to be disbarred for life recently when the state
Supreme Court ordered the Destrehan resident permanently stripped of his license
for illicitly pocketing clients' money. The court, which first suspended Morphis
in 1997 after five years of practice, found that Morphis lacked "the requisite
moral fitness to practice law in this state."
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