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...instead there was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain walking through the still-moldering remains of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, taking a direct swipe at President Bush by declaring that "never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled." There he was in Kentucky coal country, visiting the weathered porch where Lyndon Johnson announced the "War on Poverty" in 1964. There he was in Alabama's Black Belt, where people live without sewer systems, dancing as elderly quilters serenaded him with spirituals. And before the broken windows...
...could not come too soon for Mary Croom-Fontenot, an activist in New Orleans who works with local churches to help organize the post-Katrina rebuilding. "Twenty minutes out on this lawn in the heat does not suffice," she said, after McCain held a press availability in the Lower Ninth Ward on Thursday. Like some others, she said she thought McCain's visit to the neighborhood, which included two military trucks for carrying photographers to capture McCain as he walked through, was overly focused on the national media, not the actual community. "What we saw was a designated seating area...
...French Quarter, we browsed souvenir shops, sampled pralines, and listened to a jazz band perform in an outdoor cafe. But after delighting in the bustle of the French Quarter, we saw another part of New Orleans that didn’t look like America at all—the Ninth Ward. Gabe Unger ’11’s friend from New Orleans, Kimble Wright, and his mom led us around the Ninth Ward by car, where we encountered dozens of deserted stores and shopping malls. As the closed roller coasters of Six Flags rose over the highway, ghostly...
...said. “It let the other team know that we were still fighting.”The Crimson went on to take two of the next four matches to tie the overall score at three. At No. 1, Ko defeated Scott 6-2, 7-5 for her ninth victory of the season, and at No. 3, Rosekrans took down Mary Beth Winingham 7-6 (5), 6-2. The freshman led Harvard with ten singles victories and suffered just one loss in Ivy League singles this year.Dartmouth took the No. 2 and No. 5 matches in straight sets...
...single game can symbolize the type of season Harvard baseball has had, it was yesterday’s contest against Boston College (20-21, 5-16 ACC).The Crimson (8-27, 7-9 Ivy) entered the bottom of the ninth with a 4-2 lead—the squad left the inning with a 5-4 defeat. “It was another heartbreaking, heartbreaking loss,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “I thought we deserved to win...just not enough—the story of our year.”With...