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...Bush uncharacteristically said the initial relief response to the devastation along the Gulf Coast was not acceptable. Given the past reluctance of the Administration to hold anyone accountable for failure, it only remains to be seen who will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom after this tragedy. Buck Rutledge Knoxville, Tennessee...
...Anne Fraser Ladybrand, South Africa Enough is enough! I saw the scenes of utter devastation in the newspaper and on television, and my blood is boiling! Shame on Bush. Why did it take so long for him to aid the victims? How many people died waiting for help? The buck supposedly stops with the President, but he was not in Washington and left the task to others, who failed miserably. Maybe his response would have been faster in different circumstances, but it seems Bush lacked the motivation in this case, in which the majority of people concerned were poor...
Bush uncharacteristically said the initial relief response to the devastation along the Gulf Coast was not acceptable. Given the past reluctance of the Administration to hold anyone accountable for failure, it only remains to be seen who will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom after this tragedy. BUCK RUTLEDGE Knoxville, Tenn...
...probably the wrong time to try to make a buck on soaring energy prices. Sure, Katrina has pushed oil prices-and gasoline prices at the pump-higher than you might have figured. And that spells windfall profits for energy companies, especially big oil firms like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. But these stocks have been surging for more than a year. Wall Street has priced in oil at $65 or so a barrel. For the stocks to be a buy now you have to expect oil to keep going higher. Yet as the waters recede around New Orleans and oil firms...
...Buck Farmer ’08 listened as Hurricane Katrina’s winds stripped the limbs off his backyard’s trees and wrenched out others from their roots. Later he wandered up and down New Orleans’ Magazine Street with a laundry basket, at last encountering a convenience store where a man sold him coffee and canned milk, letting in just one customer at a time before closing shop forever...