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Students who participated in an intersession trip to help the post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction effort in the Gulf Coast joined community leaders from the sites they served in a crowded Lowell House dining hall last night to share photos and recount stories from the frontline. Over the course of a week, 80 students volunteered at four sites in New Orleans and across Mississippi on projects ranging from gutting houses to working with school children. “What struck me the most was the hope, the hope of the whole community,” said Jason...
...margin of defeat was rail-thin. Out of over 22,000 votes cast, there were just seven more nays than yeas. But short of a recount, the contract is dead-a stark reversal of fortunes for Transport Workers Union president Roger Toussaint. During the strike, the former subway car cleaner survived the wrath of millions of nettled commuters just long enough to win some real concessions from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Toussaint faces possible jail time for the strike, not to mention the millions in fines leveled at the union, but he had managed to preserve pensions and lock...
VOICES OF KATRINA: Photographer John Chiasson has captured the images and voices of Katrina victims as they recount their stories of survival amid the devastation. Watch this moving presentation at time.com/katrina...
...very close to his parents and his sister Rosemary and headed back to their New Jersey home as often as he could. But his job frequently kept him in Washington, and the situation left him talking to his colleagues about the influence his father had on him. "He would recount the strenuous efforts his father made to undertake redistricting in a methodical, precise way," says Doug Kmiec, a law professor at Pepperdine University who worked with Alito. "His father gave him a model for how to deal with people in a fair and evenhanded way." Alito Sr. died...
...high court’s ruling on December 12, 2000 halted the Florida recount, delivering the state’s electors—and the White House—to Bush...