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...receipts for such expenses during the first couple of weeks of Katrina relief have been collected. The tab so far: $9.8 billion, including $1.8 billion for the reimbursement of lodging expenses and $1.3 billion on trailers and temporary homes. And that is just the beginning. Shortly after Labor Day, the Bush Administration asked Congress to sign off on an additional $51.8 billion--roughly what the U.S. spends in Iraq each year. Unlike the Persian Gulf, though, the funds earmarked for the Gulf Coast were expected to last a month or two. House Republicans were so spooked by the size...
...fruits of their labor in 2004? Dawson sprinted for a school-record 1,302 yards and 17 touchdowns and is a preseason candidate for the Walter Payton Award...
That's not surprising. Matt is embarked on a solo journey through one of the most influential--and maddeningly difficult--works in the history of religious literature. After six years of his labor, Stanford University Press has published the first two books of his translation of the Zohar, the wellspring of Jewish mysticism, or Cabala. He will do nine more volumes, all rendered from the Zohar's original Aramaic. The work has received ecstatic advance reviews ("A superbly fashioned translation and a commentary that opens up the Zohar to the English-speaking world," blurbed lit-crit colossus Harold Bloom...
...oldest joke in the airline business is that to make a million bucks, you have to start with ten million. In a business with five percent margins even in good years, the combination of bloated personnel costs, poor labor-management relations, high fuel prices and the rise of pesky low-fare, good-service airlines like Southwest have all helped drive the old legacy carriers into the red. Now two of them, Delta and Northwest, have declared bankruptcy; another, much smaller airline, Virginia-based Independence Air, may soon join them. Couple that with two other flyers, United and U.S. Airways, which...
...John Kamm Executive Director, Dui Hua Foundation, San Francisco President Bush should surprise President Hu by putting human rights at the top of the agenda. When China releases political and religious prisoners?labor organizers, peaceful protesters, journalists, scholars dealing in "state secrets," Catholic priests and Tibetan nuns?its image for the American people and their representatives in Washington improves more than when it buys a fleet of airplanes or announces another round of six-party talks on North Korea...