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...half dozen developers, including Donald Trump, are eying high-rise condo projects downtown that would offer stunning views of the mighty Mississippi. The Port of New Orleans just signed an agreement to open up four miles of riverfront for development, including a one-mile-long park replacing wharves. Nearby, developer Pres Kabacoff's $318 million plan to transform the St. Thomas housing project into River Garden-a mixed-income neighborhood with Creole cottages, Victorian doubles and Greek Revival houses-should get back on track this month. And a few blocks away, KB Home, one of the nation's largest builders...
...some ways inevitable. For weeks, there had been speculation that Bush would use the occasion to visit Afghanistan - a country that the president had never visited but that his wife, Laura, had, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. At some point it probably would have become embarrassing for the White House if the President were the only top-ranking official not to visit the country to which he had dispatched thousands of American troops. Eventually Bush?s absence would only have highlighted the fragile security situation in the country...
...Donald Wieta Merritt Island...
Last week, speaking to the city's business community, Bush's Katrina czar, Donald Powell, promised that the levees would be rebuilt "better and stronger" before hurricane season starts in June--thanks to $1.5 billion Congress approved in December for levee-repair work and temporary floodgates on Lake Pontchartrain. Will it be enough? To find out, the Corps, using a supercomputer and a centrifuge, is running simulations on 1,300 storm possibilities to calculate risk. East New Orleans is its test case, and its report is due later this month. "If there is another Katrina, the system is not built...
...Your performance was terrible in that the show lacked mood, temperament and just about everything a show needs for success." DONALD TRUMP, American entrepreneur and reality-television star, responding to media mogul Martha Stewart's suggestion that her version of the corporate-reality show The Apprentice floundered because Trump would not reschedule his own Apprentice, which ran at the same time...