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Mark Thompson From the capital, our senior Washington correspondent monitors the federal relief effort...
...with a long line of buccaneers in public office offering dreams with one hand while pilfering with the other. The rebuilding effort, which will involve tough decisions about what and where to rebuild and about which places get funding first, is sure to bring all those problems into sharp relief. "The first thing they have to do is overcome their own mind-set," says Joel Kotkin, author of The City: A Global History. "They need to think about investment, infrastructure. And they will need a sense of rigor. This is a city famous for corruption where everything is for sale...
...more than one thing at a time. It's appropriate to save people with helicopters, but it can't be done to the exclusion of everything else." Jindal, who served in the President's Administration, would like Bush to ask Colin Powell to come back to run the relief operation. Others urge Bush to rope in New York City's savior Rudy Giuliani. Given the President's own performance, passing the buck wouldn't be the worst thing...
...need. But at least we can acknowledge the benefits from past space explorations that we are all now enjoying. Peter Kwame Boateng East London, South Africa The whole enlightened world was awaiting most apprehensively the safe return of the Discovery and its crew. The happy landing was a great relief. One dares to ask, however, if the risk of life to the astronauts and the expenditure of immense funds are justifiable. What are mankind's benefits from conquering space? Would the money not be better used for cancer and aids research, for trying to save people instead of endangering them...
...agricultural enterprises on coastal sands despite daunting security challenges. What do the Gaza Arabs have to show for 60 years' habitation on the same strip of land? State-of-the-art arms smuggling, obsessive incitement of hate, corrupt leadership by warlords and 4 million Palestinians still receiving U.N. refugee relief. It is time for the Palestinians to stop blaming Israel for everything and start dealing seriously with their own social and political dysfunction. David Busheikin Calgary, Canada