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APPOINTED. DONALD POWELL, 64, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and former Texas banker and fund raiser for George W. Bush; as federal hurricane reconstruction czar; two months after Katrina thrashed the Gulf Coast; in Washington. To critics who questioned Powell's lack of experience in disaster relief, his new boss, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, said hurricane victims deserved his "leadership" and "optimism...
...with glee about a year ago. Lonely at home and hooked on the thrill of competing, she began playing $20 and $30 tables and losing too much. Then an online friend at the Women's Poker Club gave her some sisterly advice, which she took to heart. "Now I deposit only so much a month," she says, "and if I lose it, I just play free games until the next month." Borrowing to play is a sure sign of trouble, say addiction experts, but money issues aren't the only indicator. Ask yourself whether your playing interferes with your life...
...send me here, and they meet the tuition payments only as a result of careful planning and foresight. In the current discussions over economic diversity, however, my family would be lumped along with families to which forty thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket or a typical deposit into a bank account. The family experiences that people from backgrounds similar to mine bring to Harvard are valuable and worthy, but are also extremely hard to quantify or nail down. All too often in the office of financial aid, students are defined down to a number, their parents?...
...pressure may force local officials to abandon the revival of the ward, which also had to rebuild after a major hurricane four decades ago. "I worry that there are a lot of people in Washington who look at not rebuilding the Ninth Ward as some kind of good faith deposit by our government here," said Washington. "You know, it would be like the Louisiana politicians saying to them, 'See, you can trust us with all that money you're gonna be pouring in here...
...Astrodome in Houston for FEMA cards that never came. A day earlier, Brown had heralded his agency's cards as a way to "empower" survivors "to start rebuilding their lives." But the agency scrapped the plan late Thursday, saying it would be more efficient for the government to deposit funds directly into evacuees' bank accounts...