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...final weeks of the campaign Nagin released two headline-grabbing initiatives: a new evacuation plan for the upcoming hurricane season, which begins June 1, and news that a consortium of banks had agreed to extend the city a $150 million line of credit to help plug holes in its operating budget. But the evacuation plan included several conditions, such as transportation and shelter for special needs evacuees, that state officials have not yet approved, and the four banks involved in the city budget deal still have not signed the necessary papers...
...campaign's high command went into a tizzy when you scheduled a joint appearance for your mother with John Kerry's wife. Why did you pull the plug? My mom would have wiped the floor with Teresa Heinz Kerry. I'm very sad that event never took place. The [campaign's] reaction was so energetic and loud that I honestly couldn't hear all of the arguments, but the one that came through most clearly was that having my mom do a town hall with Teresa Heinz Kerry would somehow have forced the President to start debating John Kerry much...
...community college event is one of a thousand the federal government is hosting around the country in a final drive to sign people up for the benefit. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt plans to visit 24 cities this week to plug the program. His department also has added 6,000 phone operators to field last-minute questions from seniors and quadrupled its computer capacity to handle a late surge of applications. Leavitt estimates that of the 43 million eligible for the drug benefit, 38 million are now covered by Medicare or other government programs. He told the Associated...
...Plug the HomeDock Deluxe into your TV set and/or home-theater system then slide your iPod onto it. When you turn on the TV, you see an easy-to-navigate interface that lets you browse through all of the audio tracks on your iPod, be they protected files or plain-old MP3s. Like its predecessor, the Deluxe comes with a remote control. I especially liked being able to find a playlist with 100+ songs, start playing a song then, with one tap, putting the whole playlist into shuffle mode. That simple maneuver usually takes four or five clicks with...
...performance, but with no expectation of long-term employment. This would allow Harvard to reap the benefits of having top-level teachers who are not constantly forced out by rules, while preventing the development of secondary faculty that effectively has tenure.The curricular review’s proposals will plug gaping holes in Harvard’s curriculum by providing broad Courses in General Education. But if this plug is to be effective, the Faculty should increase the role of lecturers and repeal the eight year rule while it?...