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Anxiety and exhaustion are evolving quickly into impatience and anger. New Orleans community leaders living inside the complex, helped by an advocacy network of Houston churches and schools, has gotten some 4,000 evacuees to sign a petition demanding immediate financial assistance; a long-term recovery package; streamlined procedures for...
Incumbent Hosni Mubarak campaigned hard against nine opponents in last week's Egyptian election, the first multiparty presidential race in the country's history. Not surprisingly, he won hands down with 88% of the vote. He could rely on the entrenched election machine of his ruling National Democratic Party, as...
Mubarak?s Minister of Information, Anas al-Fiqi, acknowledged problems but stressed, ?We have to agree that we are seeing an experience that we can build on.? Many Egyptians were heartened that the balloting was relatively free of violence compared to elections as recently as 2000, when security forces clashed...
That Las Vegas has real water woes can't be denied. The city exceeded the capacity of its own groundwater field several decades ago, and currently is 90% dependent on a limited allotment from the Colorado River--an allotment it's fast outgrowing. That is what has driven the city...
Harvard’s other registration idiosyncrasy—shopping period—has been fiercely defended by students facing proposed changes to registration in the past. In 2002, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby proposed replacing the open-lecture period with preregistration and an extended �...