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Katrina's floodwaters nearly swept him to his death, but he holds out hope in the midst of an awful job: "This will occupy me for probably five years, but I think New Orleans will rise up and be better than before. I can't wait to come back." Minyard pauses, thinking about his office--now under water, his papers ruined--and the lawsuits that will inevitably be filed. Then he smiles and says, "I've needed a new office for a long time. I'm going to con somebody into giving me one." New Orleans will need plenty more...
...David D. Ho Director & CEO, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York It is time for China to place greater importance on one of the hidden costs of its economic rise: the lack of adequate health care for much of its population. Another influenza pandemic capable of killing tens of millions of people is inevitable, especially as the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus is plaguing many parts of Asia today...
...took our Supreme Court 58 years to agree with him and, with Brown v. Board of Education, to declare segregation unequal. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formally organized in New Orleans in 1957. The problem is that we, all us Americans, have a tendency to rise in that moment of need, but when that moment passes, we fall back again...
PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT PRISON MAY HAVE HELPED YOUR IMAGE BY MAKING YOU APPEAR MORE SYMPATHETIC. DO YOU THINK THERE'S ANY TRUTH TO THAT? That may be a peculiar feature of being an American. Once you rise, you can fall and rise again. I would never wish that on anybody, but other people seem to take glee in that sort of thing...
...talked to her soothingly, according to White House officials). "His inner circle takes pride in being able to tell him 'everything is under control,' when in this case it was not," said a former aide. "The whole idea that you have to only burden him with things 'that rise to his level' bit them this time...