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...imagine how we could have survived the first few days--before help started arriving--without the solidarity among the people of Banda Aceh. And now I can't imagine how Aceh would be able to get back on its own feet without the solidarity of the world community. We lost 62,000 lives in Banda Aceh alone. It's been eight months since the tsunami struck. Look how slow the rebuilding of people's houses has been...
...city staggers back to its feet, fixing those broken levees will be a first priority. But such gap plugging is just triage in a woefully outdated system of ramparts that need extensive rebuilding and modernizing. The failed 17th Street levee had been strengthened not long before Katrina hit--an upgrade that obviously did not do the job. Now merely pumping the city free of the water the levees let in may take as long as nine weeks...
...most striking thing about Pinback’s performance at the Paradise last Saturday was the near-total absence of interesting haircuts. On most nights, one can’t get within 50 feet of the venue of any sort of innovative music in Boston without having to wade through swamps of head-borne angles and asymmetries. Perhaps it was the show’s proximity to Boston University or the speed with which it sold out that kept the Haircuts home in favor of more traditional-looking frat boys...
...meter dashes. Freshman Derek Jones represented the Harvard men in the 400-meter race. Sophomore Lindsey Scherf took first in the 10,000-meter race, improving from last year’s second-place performance. Junior Julia Pederson earned second in the javelin with a throw of 143 feet, eight inches. Freshman Shannon Flahive was in fourth place after four events in the heptathlon. On the men’s side, senior captain Travis Hughes gained fourth place with a long jump best of 23 feet, 3.25 inches. Senior Kevin Duffy also picked up a fourth-place finish...
...victory for the Mexican government. First, it eliminates the financial concern of how to care for these people. Second, the citizens who would be the angriest about the government's inadequacies keep leaving the country. Those who would vote, protest, stage walkouts, and revolt-instead keep voting with their feet. Which in turn protects The Powers That Be. And third, as a reward for watching entire communities empty out, they receive a huge influx of cash...