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...average person might find finishing ninth for the fifth time in as many competitions disappointing. But not the Harvard ski team, which did just that this weekend at the Eastern Championships. The Crimson has met with many challenges this season, aside from challenging strong competition. Last weekend’s event brought on punishing weather, and this weekend brought more trouble, as the Alpine and nordic teams were forceably split from each other. The Alpine team remained in the championship’s usual location at the Middlebury Snow Bowl and the nordic team traveled to Craftsbury, Vt., to compete...
...what many people in this still struggling city are doing. Six months after Katrina, wide stretches of town remain dead zones, testimony not only to the power of the storm but also to the failure of politicians and bureaucrats to think on their feet. In the mostly deserted Ninth Ward, where many of the city's poorest African Americans lived, Barbara Hamilton is searching for an affordable apartment while trying to find financial help to rebuild her house. "The water's not safe to drink. We don't have no lights," says the 67-year-old great-grandmother. "Everybody...
...that could help defuse the fraught racial politics of the rebuilding process. Those grow out of the fact that many of the city's most flood-prone areas, like the Lower Ninth Ward, are home to a substantial number of its African-American residents, who look long and hard at any sign that the city may forbid them to return. The city has been eager to discourage piecemeal redevelopment, in which a handful of residents here and there try to re-establish themselves in vulnerable neighborhoods. But after Mayor C. Ray Nagin hinted last year that he would consider declaring...
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...grace, a little-known Japanese figure skater became a surprise star by keeping her tush off the ice. SHIZUKA ARAKAWA beat favorites Sasha Cohen of the U.S., who won the silver, and Irina Slutskaya of Russia, who took home the bronze. Arakawa, 24, considered retiring in 2004 and finished ninth at last year's world championships. But she stuck with it to please her dad and wound up scoring Japan's first figure-skating gold and becoming a national hero. Happy now, Mr. Arakawa? --By Alice Park...