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...mistake to place the command center in a known terrorist target, he said no. "You had to put it somewhere," he said. And he noted that the Secret Service and the CIA also had offices in that building. The center was above ground level, leaving it less prone to flood damage (a serious concern in lower Manhattan), and it was within walking distance of City Hall - one of Giuliani's priorities. "In hindsight, it's pretty bad," says John Farmer Jr., senior counsel to the 9/11 commission and the person in charge of reconstructing the response to the attacks...
...Chatwal is an Indian-American Sikh businessman whose son's profligate wedding in Delhi last year became the subject of a Discovery Channel documentary, The Great Indian Wedding.The flood of over-the-top weddings that followed in its wake - mostly within Delhi's Sikh community - eventually prompted the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, a communal organization that maintains temples and represents nearly half of the city's Sikh population, passing an injunction requiring that all Sikh weddings in Delhi must now take place in gurdwaras,as Sikh temples are known, and not in hotels. No liquor or meat...
...years. While many, including several potential jurors who came before State District Judge Jerome Winsberg earlier this week, believe the Manganos are responsible for the deaths, there is a growing consensus that blame for all post-Katrina woes lies at the feet of the federal government, which built the flood-control system that was supposed to protect South Louisiana's low-lying areas in the first place. The defense maintains that the Manganos thought it better to offer shelter to residents rather than put them through the trauma of evacuation, and that they were so confident that the nursing home...
...enablers in Congress. The Corps is funded almost entirely by "earmarks,? specific projects requested by specific Congressmen, so there's no way to prioritize between national emergencies (such as stronger levees to prevent a Katrina-style catastrophe in Sacramento) and preposterous pork (such as a notorious $459 million flood-control scheme for Dallas, a study of a $3 billion dam on the Susitna River that Representative Don Young wants in Alaska, or the seven water and sewage treatment projects that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tucked into the bill for Nevada.) The Senate considered an amendment that would have required...
...Sichuan's Qu County, the floodwaters have now receded. But with crops destroyed and livestock killed, the prices for meat and vegetables are soaring. And, as residents begin to rebuild, they also think about what could happen next time. "The floods in this area have gotten worse and worse over the years," says Xu. "I was never worried about the flood...