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...baby!" King was torn between his pledge to shun violence and his promise never to abandon the movement faithful. Most others yelled to evacuate him since he presented a target of opportunity, and King aide Bernard Lee pulled King and Abernathy among swirling followers down McCall Avenue toward the Mississippi River. Lee bulled and dodged interference until he flagged down two astonished women in a Pontiac, then a police motorcycle. Lieut. M.E. Nichols, appraising the danger by radio, avoided roadblocks already sealing off routes to the Lorraine Motel (the black-owned motel where the King entourage was staying) and escorted...
...Superdome that he snared the G.O.P. nomination in 1988 and spoke of a "kinder, gentler" nation. To Clinton, New Orleans was also promised land: his mother worked at the city's Charity Hospital while he was being raised by his grandparents in Arkansas, and it was to Louisiana and Mississippi that his family took its only out-of-state vacations. In Katrina, two men from different eras, backgrounds and philosophies found common ground--and it was littered with debris...
Bush and Clinton returned to New Orleans together earlier this month, handing out $90 million in reconstruction funds to local colleges and universities; block grants to the Governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama; and at the suggestion of Bush 43, funds to help reopen churches and faith-based institutions. They created a bipartisan board to oversee the Katrina donations and vowed to put out a report later this month explaining how they spent their tsunami funds. (One project: buying new fiber-glass boats for fishermen who lost their vessels in the storm.) There's talk of a Clinton visit...
...Scott S. Cowen, wrote in a message on the university’s website that 86 percent of the students are expected to return when the school reopens in January. Housing facilities devastated by the floods have forced the school to host some students in cruise ships on the Mississippi River next semester. “It seems a little bit out of the water to me. I know I would definitely not want to be housed on a cruise ship. The motion sickness would hit me hard,” Amy C. McClendon, a visiting Tulane freshman, wrote...