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...Many locales have already witnessed the new power of MRC volunteers. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, MRC volunteers nurtured thousands of weary evacuees seeking refuge many miles from home in Texas, Mississippi, Massachusetts and other states. During the 2007 Southern California wildfires, MRC personnel cared for the exhausted at more than 15 shelters across the affected region. Recent Hurricanes Gustav and Ike mobilized MRC volunteers to support shelter operations and provide first aid in nearly a dozen states in the South. Nationwide, MRC volunteers have not only conducted pandemic influenza trainings but also now routinely staff annual...
...Mercy” up until 2006’s “Modern Times.”The quality of the songs collected here is worthy of that period’s legacy. Each disc begins with an alternate version of the surging, melancholic reflection “Mississippi,” originally found on “‘Love and Theft,’” and for a lesser collection it would seem impossible to match that song’s first moments. But Dylan succeeds in more unexpected ways as the album unfolds. Both...
...former state representative Jim Martin, the latest polls have Martin pulling within 3 points of the incumbent. Four other GOP Senators--Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, John Sununu of New Hampshire, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Norm Coleman of Minnesota--trail their Democratic challengers in the most recent polls. Mississippi's contest between Republican incumbent Roger Wicker and Democratic former governor Ronnie Musgrove is too close to call. And there are two other states--Virginia and New Mexico--where Democrats appear certain to win seats being vacated by retiring Republicans...
...standards. Worse, the law affects each state differently and punishes those with rigorous exams. In a nod to states’ rights, the law was written to allow each state to set its own testing standards. As a result, states with relatively easy proficiency tests, such as Wisconsin or Mississippi, had few schools that failed to meet testing standards. States that were hardest hit were those with difficult proficiency tests, like South Carolina, where 83 percent of schools failed to meet their targets. The sharp disparity provides further proof that a nationwide benchmark of total proficiency...
...might galvanize prospective voters - especially in the many impoverished black communities where there is no tradition of voting as an obligatory civic duty. Ronald Walters, director of the University of Maryland's African American Leadership Center, says, "You can't send young volunteers into the hollows of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida with BlackBerries, reaching out to black voters, and expect them to do the same kind of job. If people knew Jesse [Jackson] or Al [Sharpton] was coming, thousands would come out and do what they needed to do - show up on Election Day." Walters contends that blacks could account...