Word: batons
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REBECCA A. HYLTON Baton Rouge...
Jimmy says the most important influence has been on his character. Before school began this year, he went to Baton Rouge to help hurricane victims. He participates in HRO to bring joy to others. He has a normal social life, and his many friends speak of him in almost beatific terms. And he feels happy, clear, and in control...
...have to be placed on those who would return to south Plaquemines Parish, where the devastation from Katrina was nearly total. "We can't just build higher levees next time," says Hingel. "We need to figure out how to get our marshes back." --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/ Baton Rouge, Brian Bennett/Washington and Steve Barnes/Little Rock
...don’t mean to say that I’ve cherished this melody, and can’t bear to see it maladapted, I just mean that listening to the soft, faux-baton crooning of the song, and then seeing this same Joanna Newsom-esque popadry set before a backdrop of shape-shifting, color-altering starscapes and dream sequences, feels sort of like seeing Agent Smith muttering Elvish in a fever-dream to Frodo Baggins. Only sort of, but weird is weird...
...White House is trying to make it clear that Bush is getting into the nitty gritty of post-Katrina operations. "The president asked a lot of questions about how they're going about getting rid of that debris," press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters Sunday after a briefing in Baton Rouge. "The president asked more about the 9th Ward, and the searches that had gone on there; where they were in terms of the progress of doing the searches of all the homes in that area...