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...rebuilding New Orleans is still a distant ambition at a time when merely cleaning it up remains a Sisyphean endeavor. The Guardsmen, flying above the city in their Black Hawks to rescue survivors, have seen what residents stranded without electricity could not--the utter devastation out east in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes, where the Gulf of Mexico has played no favorites, inundating millionaire McMansions and modest homes alike. In the middle of an intersection sits an abandoned wheelchair, water lapping at the handlebars, its occupant carried who knows where by the floodwaters. Cars line another roadway, their doors open...
With a working knowledge of the superego, oral fixations and daddy complexes, MONICA LEWINSKY seems well equipped for her next endeavor. The world's most infamous intern will begin a master's program in social psychology at the London School of Economics next month. Since her affair with President Bill Clinton modified both their career arcs, Lewinsky has busied herself designing a line of handbags, serving as a Jenny Craig spokeswoman and offering dating advice on a reality show. Maybe she can do her thesis on the damaging effect fame has on the ability to find a vocation...
...record, the two are decent-looking humans--not porn deities with outsize appendages--who bring lots of energy to an endeavor that is neither lurid nor especially compelling. This is the triumph, and the limitation, of 9 Songs: it makes explicit movie sex ordinary--as ordinary as the sexual activities of most of the folks watching it. --By Richard Corliss
...Intelligent, thoughtful, and funny, Paul was amazing at every endeavor he pursued,” Elias wrote in an e-mail. “He never made you feel inferior and his humility made him so approachable. In my toughest times he was always encouraging. He has left a huge mark on my life...
...RECOVERY EFFORT? This is a huge endeavor, very complicated; nothing like this has been undertaken before. The disaster occurred in a difficult environment, and we have to be accountable to people from any place in the world ... [But] let's be [frank]. The relief stage ended on March 26 and there was a [three-week] vacuum before the agency was established. When it comes to housing, things are [moving]. If you expect harbors to be reconstructed and roads to be completely rebuilt, there's no way to do that in such a short time...