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...exactly one week after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Kashmir, killing an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 people. But although the earthquake has created a humanitarian crisis that dwarfs even the devastation that Katrina wrought along the Gulf Coast, Harvard has chosen to value lives in Louisiana and Mississippi above those in Pakistan and India. This is not the University’s first attempt to play the role of freelance philanthropist. In September 2001, Harvard pledged $1 million to fund scholarships for the children of terror victims. It matched $245,877 in donations by Harvard affiliates after last...
Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the creative genius behind “Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate world, in which shoe designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) has just been fired (“Jerry Maguire” much?). When a suicidal Drew is interrupted by news of his father’s unexpected death, he leaves behind...
...temporary "look-and-leave" visits. But even as they resigned themselves to the fact that their homes, as they are now, are lost to them, most, like Hagan, dug in their heels on the controversial subject of whether the vulnerable, low-lying Ninth-surrounded by canals and the Mississippi River-should be allowed to rise from Katrina's muck. "How many times have they rebuilt Florida after something like this?" asked Hagan, a housekeeper for the nearby Jefferson Barracks that house the National Guard. "They're just gonna have to improve those levees, because we're stayin...
...Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. But this week may offer Bush a chance to show progress on several issues that have plagued his second term. He will spend the first two days of the week in the Gulf Coast, where he'll attend the re-opening of a Mississippi elementary school and Habitat for Humanity building a house in Louisiana, as well as a dinner in New Orleans with local officials. He also has an interview on NBC's Today Show on Tuesday from Louisiana...
...couple of miles up the Mississippi, on an aging casino ferry hired by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house homeless parish employees, councilman-at-large Joey DiFatta is echoing that subversive sentiment after hearing some critics in Washington claim that St. Bernard should not be rebuilt at all. "I'll tell you why we need to rebuild this parish. When that bastard up north is paying $5 a gallon because the two biggest oil refineries in Louisiana--both located here--are not producing gas for his fat-cat car, that's when he'll learn about St. Bernard Parish...