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...crisis prompted Mayor Ray Nagin this week to issue an impassioned plea to Louisiana's Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, for a centrally located crisis intervention unit, either in a reopened third floor at Charity or in a designated section of University Hospital, an L.S.U. medical school affiliate that houses the city's only trauma center and where, on one recent night, 18 of the emergency department's 23 beds were occupied by mental health patients. "These patients are still getting their medical evaluations in a routine emergency department. But then they are left there," says Cathi Fontenot, the hospital...
After the Imus scandal, the rap mogul made a surprising plea to remove three offensive words from hip-hop's airwaves. He has also penned a new book about self-empowerment. Russell Simmons will now take your questions...
...Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein, announcing the Chiquita plea agreement, said: "Corporations are on notice that they cannot make protection payments to terrorists." But the human rights lawyers complain that the message from the Chiquita deal is that if companies do transgress, they'll be let off lightly...
Heed the commanders on the ground, Bush told lawmakers, but that plea was chilled by the testimony in another hearing room. The war's icons spoke in person and from the grave, honored and pitied as heroes and pawns. Jessica Lynch was no "little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting," she told the lawmakers investigating what families are told about how soldiers die. NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman had not died a hero under enemy fire, his brother Kevin said, but died by friendly fire. And in both cases, the chain...
...extracted from." Her reason for fighting the betrothal is that she is Ana Luisa's mother, though she has never told the girl. Love has made Mercé endure both her maid status and the contempt her daughter sometimes shows her -as when she denies Mercé's plea to attend the wedding. (Ana Luisa also tells Fernando he's not welcome to be Jos? Carlos' best man, or even come to the church. When Isabel asks why, he holds up his black hands and stares at them...