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...said, “Nah, this is the time we destroy and rebuild...
...Throughout the contentious session, Summers stressed his willingness to work closely with the Faculty during the search process as part of his efforts to rebuild his tenuous relationship with some professors...
...Critics suggest Chavez?s oil diplomacy is simply a ploy to take consumers? minds off of record high oil prices, which are partly a result of his efforts to rebuild the power of OPEC, of which Venezuela is a founding member. Alvarez insists crude prices in the 1990s were "unfairly low" for producers like Venezuela - but says the Citgo program does give Chavez a chance to showcase "one of our revolution?s most important principles: the redistribution of oil revenues, especially for the poor." He adds it also reflects "the kind of cooperation mechanism we?re using with our neighbor...
...that don't bode well for Nagin in the election, now set for April 22. Pinsonat, a partner in Southern Media and Opinion Research in Baton Rouge, notes that New Orleans, once 72% black, is now increasingly white-50% to 60% by some estimates. While Nagin's vow to rebuild a "chocolate" city played with the evacuee crowd in Houston and Dallas, it was not well received by middle class whites, especially those in the largely undamaged Uptown neighborhood who are back working in the city. While they will turn out to vote on election day, no one is quite...
...Baker bill, which would allow the city to buy out homeowners in the most heavily damaged neighborhoods with government-backed bonds. Without it, his Bring New Orleans Back Commission, which has laid out a $30 billion fix for the city, will have a difficult time scratching money together to rebuild. On Wednesday, Nagin told a Senate committee that the city has only so far received about 2,000 of the 45,000 to 60,000 temporary homes it needs; on the other hand, he said that the broken levees should be sufficiently repaired by the next hurricane season. Still...