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...city's silence. It was the first thing legendary jazz pianist Henry Butler noticed when he returned to his hometown after Katrina. Blind, Butler relied on friends to detail the devastation of his Gentilly home, but his other senses served up a potent picture of what had befallen the city...
...Only now do New Orleans residents seem to understand the foolishness of destroying the wetlands that once protected them and the need for strict building codes that would have lessened the effects of a disaster. I am truly sorry for the misfortune that has befallen New Orleans. But I just do not feel personally obligated to pay for it. Craig M. Miller Lakewood, Ohio...
Only now do New Orleans residents seem to understand the foolishness of destroying the protective wetlands and the need for stricter building codes. I am truly sorry for the misfortune that has befallen New Orleans. But I just do not feel personally obligated to pay for it. CRAIG M. MILLER Lakewood, Ohio...
...then, Beethoven had already realized that the worst fate imaginable for a musician had befallen him. In June 1801, he admitted to a friend, “For the last three years my hearing has become weaker and weaker. The trouble is supposed to have been caused by the condition of my abdomen.” Doctors suggested that swimming in the Danube River would assuage the pain of his chronic diarrhea, and that infusions of oil would soften the buzzing in his ears. “In all biography, there are few images more grotesquely sad than that...
...including eight consecutive Ivy contests. And Brown will need to take down an equally formidable Penn team later in the season. And it must do all of this without walking into any of those strange “asleep at the switch” games that have so characteristically befallen it over the past couple years...