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...CHOOSE A CAUSE Cisco Systems' $40 million pledge--$10 million from the chairman and $2 million from the CEO--to rebuild Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast schools underscored the company's commitment to educational reform. That followed on the heels of a 2003 Jordan Education Initiative, spearheaded and partially funded by Cisco, to offer Internet-enabled learning to the developing world. Volunteers were also sent to Ethiopia to teach computer and Internet skills...
...Orleans Today: It's Worse Than You Think" [Nov. 28] served as a much-needed wake-up call to Washington officials and the American people. The hurricane disasters on the Gulf Coast had a huge impact on the collective conscience of the nation when they occurred, but as we have become involved once again in our day-to-day tasks, the cleanup and sheer loss faced in Louisiana and elsewhere are old news. This busy holiday season, let's try to keep in our hearts all those who lost everything. LINDSEY FAHEY Frankfort...
...Schoolhouse in the French Quarter; I looked in the window of my classroom and could see my students' unfinished work inside. That is how I feel about our lives in New Orleans: so much is left unfinished. Let us all hope that America steps up to help the Gulf Coast area in its days, months and years of need. DIANE M. BLACK Tucson, Ariz...
...free press in a democracy, is to continue to raise tough questions. That doesn't mean needless aggression; it means holding people in power accountable. If I had to single out one personal consequence, I would single out Rush Limbaugh. When the hurricane ravaged the Gulf Coast-a hurricane sadly bearing my name, Katrina-he went on his radio show, and began calling it Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel. That comes because I think he sees me on Hardball, or he understands that I take positions and feel strongly and passionately about those. It seemed to me he was willing...
...show was about college.Seth and Sandy had a sentimental mini-conflict: Seth wants to go to Brown, and Sandy was pushing him toward Berkeley. It was all tidily resolved as Sandy accepted his son’s desire to etch his own path, and Summer left behind her West-Coast dreams and decided to apply to Providence College—a school only 20 minutes away from Seth’s desired destination. Convenient, no?Taylor encouraged Summer to do so, after the two had a heart-to-heart. Sadly, I think their final interaction in this episode signaled...