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...final weeks of the campaign Nagin released two headline-grabbing initiatives: a new evacuation plan for the upcoming hurricane season, which begins June 1, and news that a consortium of banks had agreed to extend the city a $150 million line of credit to help plug holes in its operating budget. But the evacuation plan included several conditions, such as transportation and shelter for special needs evacuees, that state officials have not yet approved, and the four banks involved in the city budget deal still have not signed the necessary papers...
...Iran's readiness to welcome other countries to partner with Iran in a consortium provides additional assurance about the peaceful nature of Iran?s nuclear program...
...latest dispatch from the Culture Wars: the “Big 4” television networks and the Hearst-Argyle broadcast consortium have recently filed suits against the Federal Communications Commission in federal and state courts. These suits challenge the agency’s increasingly common and costly indecency fines...
...Each of these elements alone presents its own intrigue. But together they make for one of the most combustible, and, says Bonnie Thornton Dill, Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, "recurrent dramas in American history." Dill likens the Duke narrative to the debate surrounding the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. "Race, class, gender and sexuality are woven together so tightly here that they cannot be separated," she says. "You cannot understand this by looking at it through a single lens of any one of these dimensions...
...hand in the North Carolina experiment, the students are not. One reason may be that the closing of several manufacturing plants in the state has scared off potential recruits who often turn to the service sector and never even get the chance to learn about the consortium. The largest of its member firms, Julius Blum Inc., an Austrian-based maker of hinge, drawer and rollout systems for cabinetry, has already invested some $30 million in machinery for the training program and hired 26 of its graduates. But Blum apprentice trainer Tony Austin says the company still faces an uphill battle...