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...wetlands defenses and the dysfunction of the agencies that built its levees and responded to the storm. By contrast, the rebuilding of Greensburg, Kans., as an environmentally sustainable town after it was flattened by a tornado a year ago reflected American resilience and ingenuity. Hurricanes and tornadoes are random events, but preparations and responses...
...Obama may make it sound like just a random fashion choice, but there is a large swath of Americans who take symbols like the pledge of allegiance, the national anthem, and, yes, the flag in its many iterations very seriously. And, as former Clinton adviser Doug Schoen pointed out in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week, these are people - mostly white working-class folk - whom Obama can ill afford to offend given his losses in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia...
...announcing the deal, al-Sadr aide Sheik Salah al-Obeidi said the agreement, "stipulates that the Mahdi Army will stop fighting in Sadr City and will stop displaying arms in public. In return, the government will stop random raids against al-Sadr followers and open all closed roads that lead to Sadr City...
Adapted from CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT I FORGOT: THE GOOD NEWS FROM the FRONT LINES OF MEMORY RESEARCH by Sue Halpern. Copyright 2008 by Sue Halpern. Published by Harmony Books, a division of Random House...
...said she was not unhappy wither her address, but she often receives e-mails sent to her mistakenly. “I get misdirected e-mail all the time, mostly for people who are looking for someone else,” she said. Students have complained about the seemingly random assignment of e-mail addresses. All the Anderson’s enrolled at Harvard were assigned some variation of “anders@fas.harvard.edu,” either with the addition of a first initial or numbers.At yesterday’s Committee on College Life meeting, administrators discussed the e-mail...