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After disasters such as last week's storm, it's commonplace to extol the fierce determination of the afflicted as they rise like a phoenix. But indomitable energy is not what earned New Orleans the sobriquet the Big Easy, and it has never been a Phoenix in any sense. The evacuees I know talked about wandering to visit far-flung friends for a few months before heading home...
...music that is most remarkable: he fuses Marley-like beats and melodies with a wordless Hasidic vocal scat style known as "niggun" and lyrics that extol spiritual devotion to God. Matisyahu’s second CD, "Live at Stubb’s" jetted up the charts last year, eventually climbing into the Top 40 with over 100,000 copies sold...
...longer content to let its profits do the talking, Wal-Mart is trying to remake its image, in some measure with the aid of inner-city African Americans. The math is simple: Wal-Mart offers stores and jobs to poor black communities that are hemorrhaging both. Meanwhile, those communities extol the virtues of Wal-Mart, offering a buffer against the company's critics. Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott is well aware of what a business partner like Garner does for the company's profile. "I like the image," he says. "In one part of Chicago you have ... an African-American...
...about Paris directed by filmmaker Luc Besson, and Spain's Queen Sofía and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will be on hand to lobby for Madrid. The winning city - you can count on it - will hold a press conference and pop champagne to extol the benefits of hosting the Games. Back home, jubilant citizens will party in the streets. Everyone will claim that the Games will have a profound economic impact on the city that wins - that, of course, is one of the key arguments that has been used to persuade their residents...
...control advocates are distraught over this development, predicting a rise in everything from road-rage episodes to gang violence. Gun toters may wrongly assume they have "total immunity from prosecution," said Miami police chief John Timoney. The law's supporters dismiss such concerns as liberal hysteria and extol the bill's passage as a victory for law-abiding citizens. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s excruciatingly macho executive vice president, crowed, "[This will] make criminals pause before they commit their next rape, robbery or murder...