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...that evening, seven helicopters from the Air Force Reserve 920th Rescue Wing out of Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., had ferried hundreds of refugees onto the runway at New Orleans Lakefront Airport, where they waited in darkness to go somewhere, anywhere. Beside them, Colonel Tim Tarchick, the wing commander, screamed into his satellite phone at someone from the Emergency Operations Center. "I've got 1,000 people who have been dropped here. We're out of food, and they're starting to get tense. We need security. It's like frickin' Baghdad here. You have to take control," he yelled...
...after even the President had shifted to calling the government's response "not acceptable," the No. 2 at FEMA sounded as though he had been monitoring a different hurricane. "I am actually very impressed with the mobilization of man and machine to help our friends in this unfortunate area," Patrick Rhode told TIME. "I think it's one of the most impressive search-and-rescue operations this country has ever conducted domestically." That day, members of Congress called for hearings...
...Connecticut and becoming a regular suburban dad. But Bret brings his demons with him, both figuratively--he can't kick the sauce and he's haunted by his late alcoholic, rageoholic father--and literally: the Connecticut McMansion is assailed by supernatural bogeys, including a real-world incarnation of Patrick Bateman, the titular American Psycho. If the pace flags in places, there are the bones of a great book here: Stephen King--style horror imbued with Ellis' trademark narcotized despair...
...allegations of patronage--which include rigging of applicant test scores, falsifying records and recommending the hiring of, among other apparently unqualified people, one dead man and one drunk--are just the latest serious charges of wrongdoing leveled at Daley's administration. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (who is also investigating the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity) has helped convict more than 20 city employees of taking bribes in exchange for contracts in the city's Hired Truck program, which doles out transportation work to private companies. When announcing the recent indictments, Fitzgerald, who has also charged that...
...PATRICK OLLIER, French Deputy, on rumors of a possible bid by PepsiCo for France's Danone