seperate entries into two areas on the page

Hi everyone. I think I’m about to ask a stupid question, but I’ve been googling and searching for hours and can’t find any answer!

I’m making a blog for a friend who wants to use the structure of good.is. The problem I have is that this site has blog entries in two areas, the typical centred column and the horizontal area above it. They seem to have the ability to enter the blogs into only one of these areas so that it doesn’t repeat on the page. Is there and theme or widget or way of setting up wordpress to do this? Or should I maybe look at Drupal? good.is is created using CloudFront by the look of it, but I’m not familiar with it.

Ideally I’d like to stick with WordPress, so I’ve got my fingers crossed that one of you lovely people will be able to point me to a solution.

Many thanks

Leroc