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...still excited about going to Tulane this spring. Tulane’s president, Scott S. Cowen, wrote in a message on the university’s website that 86 percent of the students are expected to return when the school reopens in January. Housing facilities devastated by the floods have forced the school to host some students in cruise ships on the Mississippi River next semester. “It seems a little bit out of the water to me. I know I would definitely not want to be housed on a cruise ship. The motion sickness would...
...report on what remains to be accomplished in New Orleans, three months after Hurricane Katrina, moved readers to share their concern about conditions there. Some were outraged by the slow pace of the government's recovery efforts, while others argued against rebuilding in a flood zone...
...next year. Though the company markets itself explicitly as Christian and centers its games on themes like the problem of evil and the possibility of redemption, it avoids any overt mention of Christianity.“Orion,” for example, is a pre-flood fantasy in which Adam feels the effects of the Fall and is eventually redeemed. Names like “Adam,” “Jesus,” and “God” will not, however, be used, according to an e-mail from Peter J. Churness, Rebel Planet?...
...defining dramatic moment of this kind: Marissa’s nightmare about the shooting; Ryan’s punching-bag fiasco; and this kaleidoscopic flashback. Even though this one was effective, the act needs to stop.Seriously, what’s next? Will Julie be overcome by a flood of repressed memories from her trailer-park childhood? If that prediction materializes, I’m so money…and so incredibly sad.—Kevin Ferguson
President George H.W. Bush feared the political ramifications of opening the borders to a flood of Haitians, especially after a number of them tested HIV-positive. After a lower court initially blocked him from sending the refugees back, Bush held them at Guantánamo. In the meantime, the federal appellate court in Atlanta ruled that the Haitians had no protection under American law because, at Guantánamo, they were outside the U.S. At the naval base, Immigration and Naturalization Service officials classified many of the escapees as “economic...