Word: louisiana
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...orders. ("I want you to go and get it done," he says, telling them he has no time for progress reports.) He strides down the streets of New Orleans to correct his soldiers' comportment; he strides down tarmacs to waiting helicopters. He strides away from the Governor of Louisiana as she honors him at a press conference. "Where's my general?" asks a nonplussed Kathleen Blanco. Across the yard, Honoré, a Dutch Masters cigar curled under his forefinger, has a cell phone pressed to his ear. "He's taking care of business," an aide says...
While Harvard’s population was relatively untouched by the storm, students at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge saw a routine hurricane evacuation become one of the most extensive relief operations in the country...
...refugees freshly deposited at the center were numb and silent, suspended in the limbo between desperation and depression. Women flipped through piles of used bibs and picture books. Men sat in circles and vowed to return to the city of their birth, before scattering to cities beyond the Louisiana state line, the furthest many had ever traveled. One woman, offered the chance to relocate to Corpus Christi, Tex. by a delegation of local leaders, raised her hand: Where was Corpus Christi, anyway...
According to the American Council of Education, 175,000 students are enrolled in colleges in the storm-ravaged areas of Southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) has not yet stated its policy on displaced medical students, although the school is preparing to offer clinical rotation spots to students if necessary and is assisting with student relocations, according to HMS spokesman John Lacey. HMS has only extended that offer to Tulane and Louisiana State University-New Orleans, Lacey said...