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...many meetings stayed private for the relationship to be simply, or even mostly, one of convenience. In addition to their public appearances, the two men met several times without reporters or camera crews present. Clinton flew to Houston last September to make plans for paying out Katrina funds, then joined Bush for dinner at his home there. The two men met for breakfast at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City and did some quiet photo ops for private donors. During a stop in Little Rock to shoot some public-service announcements last spring, 41 spent more than an hour...
...WENT TO THE GULF COAST AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA. WHAT IS YOUR MOST VIVID MEMORY FROM THE TRIP? No matter how many times you've seen it or been involved, the poignancy of human suffering is beyond human comprehension. We went to visit the Astrodome in Houston. I found it very inspiring that at this evacuee center, 45,000 people showed up to help 23,000 evacuees. I played with a 4-year-old girl who seemed so oblivious in so many ways to what was happening around her. She had her grandfather, and she had her mother. So in times...
...parole in 2004 after a federal judge overturned his conviction on the Libya charges brought in Texas, Wilson, who had credit for time served on the other counts, has not been content simply to breathe the fresh air of freedom. Instead he has filed a lawsuit in a Houston federal court against his prosecutors that will probably embarrass the CIA and Justice Department at a time when both are struggling to uphold their credibility as they work to combat terrorism. At issue is his consistent claim that his foreign crimes were committed at least implicitly under the direction and authority...
Fueling demand for the natural resource is water's continuing transformation from a necessity to a commercialized, globalized product. India's largest brand, Bisleri, ships water from a spring in Chateaugay, N.Y., to markets as far away as Houston. In the growing luxury market, water can cost as much as wine. Some critics of the industry see an unfortunate irony in the fact that a billion people in the world don't have access to safe drinking water. "We are not against bottled water for humanitarian reasons," says Terry Swier, president of Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation...
...other than Islam, and others are not religious. What is happening in France has nothing to do with Muslim extremism, al-Qaeda or the war on terrorism. The riots are the result of the complete failure of France to absorb and integrate its immigrant population. Period. Anne H. Peslier Houston...