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Today’s swearing-in ceremony caps Roberts’ meteoric rise to the top of the legal world, one that began at Harvard nearly 30 years ago when he chose to attend law school instead of pursuing a Ph.D. in history...
...hour after the troops rise at 7 a.m. for a breakfast of MREs and Propel Fortified Water, Reall gives them their mission: a "windshield survey," from their vehicles, of Westlake, a small community northwest of Lake Charles. "We don't want you getting out unless you come across a significantly collapsed structure that looks like it might have somebody in it," Reall says. Primarily, the team will log significant areas of damage. Dr. Randy Marriott gives a medical briefing. In addition to the usual hazards-such as the power lines-rescuers are told to watch out for pit vipers...
...Increase in monthly stipends, to $916, the French government will give any parent who takes one year of unpaid leave from work after the birth of his or her third child 1.9 Average number of children per woman in France, where the fertility rate must rise to 2.07 to prevent population decline...
Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Donella M. Rapier, clearly pleased by the results in an interview yesterday, attributed the rise to donor support for University-wide priorities like the sciences, and buoyed by several sizable gifts. The strong showing comes as the University is in the midst of the quiet phase of a multibillion-dollar capital campaign...
...Katrina demanded far more than business acumen-more than any mayor could be expected to rise to, say Nagin's defenders. He is credited with ordering a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans before the storm hit, but has made several missteps as well, including a failure to get enough buses to people stranded in flooded neighborhoods, his baffling four-day disappearance during the second week of the crisis when he went to Dallas to rent a house for his family and his overwrought estimate that the city's death toll could be 10,000 instead of the likely finally tally...