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...Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to disband its emergency-housing program on Dec. 1 for those still scattered to the four winds. Members of Congress appear to be tired of hearing about the needs of evacuees, the lives lost and the vestiges of formerly thriving communities along the devastated Gulf Coast. Legislators are beginning to turn their attention elsewhere, while hurricane exiles wait for a sign that it is safe to go home again. But we are all suffering from Katrina fatigue. Everyone in my family and my hometown of New Orleans is living...
...weeks ago Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco called upon me to serve on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I accepted. We are now working urgently with President George W. Bush, the Louisiana congressional delegation, state and local leaders, Mayor Ray Nagin and parish officials to rebuild the Gulf Coast communities in a way that will give people the confidence to return. That will require a strong hurricane-protection system of safe levees and coastal wetlands, updated building codes so people can reconstruct with a sense of security, business incentives that will create opportunity, and school reforms that will draw people home...
...know I speak for the millions of Americans from Louisiana, Mississippi and the other Gulf Coast states when I say we are determined to rebuild our coastal communities down home. We are good people. We add a lot to the life of the nation. We are counting on you not to forget us now that the cameras have moved...
...biggest thing I learned was to live by myself,” says the 6’8 inch forward. “A huge part of it was living on my own and experiencing my first east coast winter...
...people who are good at it and some people who aren’t.”In his first big-budget on-set experience—his movie-stealing interlude in “Coffee and Cigarettes” was more a cameo role—the East Coast legend has found the world of Hollywood fairly welcoming. Even though during filming Jennifer Aniston was in the trying process of separating from Brad Pitt, the RZA remembers that she “showed mad respect and mad love for my homeboys when they visited...