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Katrina didn't just fling barges across bayous--it ripped a hole in the nation's economy. The storm crippled oil and gas production in the Gulf, idled refineries and chemical-processing plants and devastated New Orleans' $7 billion tourism industry. The city stands to lose more than $500 million a month in visitor dollars. J. Stephen Perry, head of the Convention and Visitors Board, says the empty and damaged hotels "are like Baghdad on a bad day." But for the national economy, what's more critical is that Katrina disrupted a vital node in the country's transport network...
...9/11, ground zero has been excavated, purified and turned into a place of pilgrimage. When completed, the new World Trade Center memorial will attract 10 million visitors a year, its handlers expect. Ground zero has inspired dozens of books, several documentaries and passionate calls to rebuild and reclaim the hole in the ground with something both respectful and profitable. The result? Sixteen barren acres of good intentions...
...goalies,” Anderson said. “If something like that happened we’d have a guy ready to go.”...The first of Calvert’s three goals on Saturday struck the net with such force that it actually tore a hole in the goal, causing a slight delay in the game. Fittingly, Calvert holds the team-lead in points, having scored 38 on the season.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...each.The first few scenes of the play are performed in front of a closed curtain by paper figures in a small toy theater as the endearingly cheeky Cheshire Cat (Rowan W. Dorin ’07) narrates. The live performance begins when the paper Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole in the toy stage, and the actual Alice (Sara L. Bartel ’06) stumbles out of the bottom of the figure stand.Bartel gives an admirable performance in the title role. She emphasizes Alice’s wide-eyed wonder and befuddled consternation, but rarely veers into overstatement despite...
...sense to Greenfield, however, because he believed that 62.35 would pass before the bylaw legislation. Unfortunately for him, the former did not.After the docket order had been changed, Greenfield amended his amendment so that all mention of the bylaws requirements had been removed. Somehow, no one noticed the gaping hole that remained when the Council voted on the constitutional amendment. For upon its passage, the UC was left with no provision for dealing with bylaw changes. (It passed by a vote of 31-0, with four members abstaining, and the rest not casting any ballot.)Therefore, when the Council moved...