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Making matters worse, some observers say, is the city leadership's apparent indifference to the bloodletting. Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, Mayor Ray Nagin, then in the very early stages of a heated reelection bid, dismissed warnings that many companies, like displaced residents, might opt to relocate. Nagin said he hoped they would stay. "But if they don't," he said with typical glibness, "I'll send them a postcard...
...what can Reid do? After months of being banged around, last week he decided to play hardball. He threatened to hold the Senate in session through August recess-a month both chambers usually take off-unless Republicans relent and clear the way for ethics reform and the implementation of the 9/11 commission's recommendations...
...Unabashed by being in London's shadow and running the risk of being compared to the competing Edinburgh 'fringe' festival, the largest annual arts symposium in the world which kicks off in August, Manchester opened its 'Manchester International Festival' on June 28, the world's "first" international arts fair comprised of wholly new works...
Gross wrote he will work until August preparing for the next academic year, pulling together faculty committees to consider the study of language across the curriculum and activity-based learning, and he will propose a group to the next dean to review the Administrative Board, according to his e-mail to The Crimson...
...individuals involved in terrorist activity, 200 networks and 30 plots. The source says investigators are keeping an open mind about the identity and motive of the bomber. Britain's current terrorism threat level has been deemed "severe" since the plot to bomb trans-Atlantic jets was uncovered last August. That means an attack is thought highly likely...