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...Earlier this month, Nagin got a standing ovation from some 2,000 local entrepreneurs after pledging that they would get their fair share of the billions of dollars in federal reconstruction contracts about to pour in. "This is a once-in-a-400-year opportunity," he roared inside a downtown hotel ballroom. "You're in a position to create wealth for your children and your children's children. And after you make all that money, give back. The days of haves and have-nots are over...
...creating the consensus building necessary for such a giant undertaking. He seemed distracted and impatient last week at the first public meeting of his Bring New Orleans Back Commission. Just days earlier, without consulting the commission, he had announced a controversial proposal to allow casino gambling in several large downtown hotels--only to see the idea panned by everyone from Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to chambermaids. And his opponents certainly haven't forgotten his performance in the first, darkest days after Katrina, when Nagin admonished sluggish federal officials to "get off your asses" but then indulged what turned...
...Angeles, and the artist who calls himself Branded is getting ready for a "mission." If he were another kind of artist, he would call it a gallery opening, but today his gallery consists of a few alleys off La Brea Avenue and some threadbare bits of downtown. Once there, he will look for exhibition sites, meaning temporary construction walls, shuttered buildings and utility boxes. One thing to know about street art is that it generally plants its flag in Nowheresville...
...dangerous places. But ultimately, the College must lend all reasonable support to its students’ decisions. An exemption system for restricted countries would put the onus on students to prove the safety of their travel plans, allowing the College to prevent downright crazy explorations (say, travel to downtown Grozny) while at the same time adding invaluable flexibility. We encourage the College to take the next step forward and further expand international opportunity at Harvard...
...John Washington, 40, a resident of the Ninth's Holy Cross section who owns a print shop in downtown New Orleans, noted that some of the Crescent City's most prized historical homes and buildings sit in the Lower Ninth Ward. But Washington said he also knows that federal financial 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...