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...humor mixed with pain in his eyes. His staff members kidded him when he showed up the night before Katrina with a "hurricane box" containing a sledgehammer and life jackets. They laugh no more, he says. This year Charity, which can barely sustain an emergency room in a defunct Lord & Taylor store, plans to shut down and evacuate for anything greater than a tropical storm...
Under the subject heading “Who’s pulling an all-nighter in Lamont tonight??” the previously defunct “FMspeak-l” internal mailing list experienced nothing short of a renaissance this past Sunday and Monday, attracting posts from FM staffers...
...Providing security is currently mostly the preserve of some 9,000 U.N. peacekeepers under Brazilian command, on whom Préval will depend as long as the situation demands it. He plans to formally abolish the Haitian military, unofficially defunct since President Aristide dissolved it in 1995, although one of the greatest threats to Haiti's stability since then has come from the disgruntled former soldiers who eventually overthrew Aristide's government two years...
Hellman titled her second book of memoirs Pentimento, meaning the brush strokes and old images that struggle to emerge from a repainted canvas. You see that a lot in New Orleans: advertisements for defunct brands of beer and coffee poking through the fading paint of old brick buildings. Indeed, it has always been a city of masks and painted faces, with past mysteries and glories lurking faintly visible underneath...
...faces key challenges in defining a mission that contributes something new to the campus rather than competing with the mission of the Institute of Politics and in avoiding the fate of the now-defunct Harvard Social Forum, which similarly sought to unite advocacy groups. By carefully listening to the groups it seeks to serve and by focusing on the ways these groups can learn from each other and support each other’s initiatives, CPS just might help facilitate a stronger and more effective political community...