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...more remarkable, then, that rescuers believe the death toll may be much lower than initially feared. In the early days of the crisis, Mayor Ray Nagin predicted that New Orleans and its environs would see 10,000 dead. But by Saturday fewer than 200 bodies had been found, leading retired U.S.M.C. Colonel Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland-security director, to declare that "the numbers so far are relatively minor compared to the dire predictions" of Nagin and others. Ebbert says it will take authorities two weeks to make a reliable estimate of the casualties, and the precise figure will...
...good historical films come out of India. Movie buffs remember Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players, a classic in which the British seize the Indian kingdom of Avadh, and Lagaan, a crowd-pleaser nominated for an Oscar in 2002, in which the Indians thrash the British at cricket. But these are the exceptions. Most Bollywood films focus predictably on ishq?love?and little else. The travails of The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, India's most ambitious historical movie in years, show...
...Spiras--has helped the company's sales jump, from $650,000 in 2002 to $3.9 million last year. The company now turns a profit and is on pace to double sales, to $8 million in 2005. "Spira is already comparable to the best running shoes on the market," says Ray Fredericksen, founder of sporting-goods consultancy Sports Biomechanics...
...Ray Nagin do everything he could to save his city...
...want to see anybody do any more goddamn press conferences...Don't do another press conference until the resources are in the city." RAY NAGIN, New Orleans mayor, complaining in a radio interview about the slow pace of relief efforts...