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Repair and cleanup are linked, to some degree, with planning what New Orleans should look like five years from now. The Louisiana Recovery Authority, appointed by Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, met in November with hundreds of New Orleans residents to develop priorities, brainstorm ideas with planners and businessmen, and present a unified voice. The Authority vice chair Walter Isaacson petitioned Congress last week for help in establishing a "recovery corporation" as a vehicle for the city's rebuilding neighborhoods. Donald Powell, the new hurricane czar appointed by George W. Bush, said his job is to listen and gather facts...
...unsolicited problem solving caused tension, says Kim Allard, a city councilor who helped the Meehan-Hoos settle in. Each day King would present his guests with a schedule of tasks. "He was controlling everything that was happening. And they were fully able to do for themselves," says Allard...
...year. That sort of backsliding, coupled with efforts by many countries to negotiate bilateral or regional trade accords outside the WTO framework, sends shivers through multinational corporations, who are the first to feel the impact of trade restrictions. The Doha round is needed to "keep in check the ever-present threat of protectionism," says a petition signed this month by the chief executives of 60 companies including Microsoft, Nestl? and corporations as far afield as China and Pakistan. The statement urged governments to "redouble their efforts to break out of the current impasse." A similar plea came from 21 leaders...
...authorities. After his 1762 critique of religion in “Emile” he fled first to Switzerland, then to Britain, and then, after a bizarre spat with David Hume, back to Paris—where he now lies in the crypt of the Pantheon.In choosing to present rather than to judge Rousseau’s character, Damrosch effectively frees the reader from judging. People who have heard of Rousseau sometimes feel compelled to stake out one of two positions on his personal failings. Either he was an unbearably nasty man who, by sheer happenstance, wrote books that have...
...uneven new book, “Let My People Go Surfing,” Yvon Chouinard proudly boasts that the outdoor gear company he founded, Patagonia, has managed to “challenge convention wisdom and present a new style of responsible business.” Unlike the stereotypical evil business, Patagonia has managed to do “good things and make a profit without losing its soul,” Chouinard writes. This prophet of responsible capitalism promises to explain how he broke the rules and won.And the lessons are there. For instance, Chouinard stresses the importance...