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...happy to note the collective response of Harvard’s faculties—and the numerous other universities nationwide—to the devastation wrought by Katrina’s cruel gales. Any exertions Harvard makes on behalf of Hurricane Katrina’s victims will necessarily look meager next to the billions of dollars that will be spent to save, salvage, and resurrect New Orleans in the coming months and years. Nonetheless, each invaluable life which Harvard rescues from painful disruption or utter ruin represents a laudable success and makes the country a better place...
...neared New Orleans, the Voodoo Child touched down in a tiny field next to an apartment building whose residents, many of them physically and mentally disabled, were trapped inside by the flood waters. As they filed into the helicopter with the most meager of belongings, the emotional pain of the adults contrasted with the excitement of children like Dawonne Matthews, 11, who was taking his first 'copter ride, joyfully sporting the helmet that crew chief Cpl. Jessica Buckley, 25, had given him to wear. "We've never felt so forgotten in our lives," said Dawonne's mother, Trinise Henry...
When the Google Talk system was released last week, it set tongues wagging. Not that there was a great deal to say about the product, a free, feature-meager instant-messaging and voice-over-Internet chat system. But Google, without a clearly stated long-term strategy, sets off buzz and speculation with every move it makes--especially since it announced plans to sell more than 14 million shares in a new stock offering that could raise $4 billion...
Lincoln's political resume was meager, his learning derided, and his election considered a stroke of luck. And yet the prairie lawyer from Springfield would emerge the undisputed captain of his distinguished Cabinet, earning the respect of colleagues who had originally disdained him, and become, as Whitman wrote, "the grandest figure yet, on all the crowded canvas of the Nineteenth Century...
...outsourcing. Filipinos are not famed for their brilliance at telemarketing, which requires pushiness, but they are prized when it comes to the gentler art of customer service. The nation's other outsourcing edge is more basic: it has a large population of English speakers who will work for relatively meager salaries. A top agent in Manila might be paid $2.65 an hour, perhaps a quarter of what someone in a call center in the U.S. might earn. As a result, it can be a highly profitable business...