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...electives in the first place. There are plenty of social studies concentrators who dabble in fields other than their own; engineers who try to do the same risk failing to complete their concentration requirements in four years. It is hardly a surprise then that many engineering concentrators take a ninth semester to finish their degrees.This extra semester is independently problematic. Aside from emphasizing the importance of a broad academic program and the ability to choose a diverse set of electives, most American colleges are also philosophically committed to the four-year undergraduate program. Canadian university students frequently take five...
...smaller footprint and restore New Orleans to [the size] it was," said longtime Louisiana political observer Elliott Stonecipher. But Nagin, who was a cable television executive before making his first run for public office in 2002, is a businessman, Stonecipher noted, who "knows that to literally restore the Ninth Ward, to literally restore New Orleans East, is of course not what we want...
...Along Lake Pontchartrain, meanwhile, contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers are rushing to finish new floodgates on the city's perimeter, working even at night under klieg lights. New levees replacing those wiped out by the hurricane are nearly finished. The result, ironically, is that the Katrina-ravished Ninth Ward, lying devastated behind its new, higher, fortified levee, may now be one of the safer places to live in the city...
...scene can be driven into the canal bed to stop storm surges--a job that would take three days to complete in the "worst case," Setliff promises. That plan, put into effect along Lake Pontchartrain before Hurricane Rita, worked well--though it was little solace for the unprotected Ninth Ward, which flooded for a second time...
Jorge Johnson, 40, moved to Houston about a month after Katrina, after spending several weeks in a Baton Rouge shelter. A construction worker and painter originally from Honduras, Johnson had lived in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He evacuated in his 2003 blue Dodge Caravan with his girlfriend, her sister and her sister's boyfriend. The boyfriend, Dwight Robertson, was Johnson's friend as well, so they all stuck together after the storm...