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Why did the levee system fail? The Corps's system suffered from faulty design that was based on outdated scientific data. The network of canals and levees, built piecemeal over 40 years, was constructed to withstand relatively weak hurricanes, not the Katrina-size monsters that scientists had more recently warned...
He says Alkatiri and other former resistance fighters in the government are communists who've been talking about buying surface-to-air missiles "to shoot down planes." Their ideas are outdated, he says: "None of the young people think that way now." But Reinado says he has no political ambitions...
As the city staggers back to its feet, fixing those broken levees will be a first priority. But such gap plugging is just triage in a woefully outdated system of ramparts that need extensive rebuilding and modernizing. The failed 17th Street levee had been strengthened not long before Katrina hit...
Harvard’s little red book, the Handbook for Students, is four hundred and twenty five pages long. Of those pages, two are devoted to student-run businesses, one details the “care of furnishings and personal property,” and seven are reserved for information...
President of the Harvard Democrats Eric P. Lesser ’07, who was contacted about the Symposium by one of Mills’ research associates, called Mills’ initiative “ridiculous,” “silly,” and “a...