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...chief, as an adviser--and didn't discourage anyone from assuming that it reflected her feelings about the ineffectiveness of Bush's FEMA director, Michael Brown. When Bush decided to make a second trip into the state last week, Blanco learned about it from the media--and had to cancel her trip to visit evacuees in the Houston Astrodome. Blanco insists, however, that Washington and Baton Rouge are now on the same page. Bush, she said, "is disappointed by the response, given the immediacy of the need. We're both disappointed. But you know, that's the past...
...climate was close to impossible to work in, and that was a climate created by the junta." CHRIS BEYER, AIDS expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's decision to cancel its program in Burma due to new travel restrictions on humanitarian workers...
Neugeboren said that there are currently no plans to cancel the program. Several Harvard students who are currently living in London said that they had made no changes to their summer plans because of the attacks, and intended to stay in London for the completion of their programs...
...Live 8 concerts—organized by British activist Sir Bob Geldof—are designed to put pressure the leaders of the G8 countries to increase aid, cancel debt, and deliver what Geldof calls “trade justice” to Africa, in advance of this month’s G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, where Africa tops the agenda...
...Horowitz taught some half a dozen students between 1944 and the early '60s. It was not always a happy experience for the students. Horowitz would sometimes cancel lessons without warning if he was not in the mood. "It had its negative aspects," says Alexander Fiorillo, a professor of piano at Temple University who studied with Horowitz between 1960 and 1962. "He is callous to people's emotions and their feelings. I almost had a nervous breakdown." Yet Coleman Blumfield, whose lessons came to a summary end in 1958 for reasons he never completely understood, declares, "It was a privilege...