Word: louisiana
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...city's black population might not return to New Orleans. "I'm sympathetic to those who are dispersed, but not to the criminal element," says shipyard builder Donald "Boysie" Bollinger, who sits on both the mayor's Bring New Orleans Back Commission and the state's Louisiana Recovery Authority. "We should not try to bring back a society that breeds crime." Good news for New Orleans, but apparently not for Houston...
...game. In a 2001 e-mail to a lawyer for tribal leader Lovelin Poncho, he crows about an upcoming meeting at the White House that he had arranged for Poncho and says it should be a priceless asset in his client's upcoming re-election campaign as chief of Louisiana's Coushatta Indians. "By all means mention [in the tribal newsletter] that the Chief is being asked to confer with the President and is coming to Washington for this purpose in May," Abramoff writes. "We'll definitely have a photo from the opportunity, which he can use." The lawyer...
...Jay” Rockefeller IV ’61 said he did not know whether the West Virginia Democrat ever belonged to one of the secretive social groups. A spokesman for Senator David Vitter ’82 did not return a phone message inquiring whether the Louisiana Republican ever had final club ties...
...from their hectic Tulane schedules.Joshua Miller says he and his fellow Tulane students took advantage of Boston’s colder climate. “We just all went sledding on kitchen trays down Linden Street,” he says. “A bunch of kids from Louisiana had never seen snow.”“[Being at Harvard has] been sort of nice for me because at Tulane I do a crapload of stuff,” Joshua Miller says. “Here…I have time to sit and play my guitar...
...dare you include Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco in your Worst Governors list! She has moved forward despite political hurdles that other hurricane-prone states haven't had to face. She has confronted catastrophic conditions never before faced by any Governor. I am disgusted with TIME.CAROLYN HITT Baton Rouge...