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...start and a huge storm began, so the raced got delayed and we had to hide in this little hut for an hour,” sophomore varsity stroke George Kitovitz said. “All the crews had to take their boats out and run for the nearest shelter.”But when the time came, when the wind had died down and the referees resumed their positions, neither rain nor lightning could keep the Tigers from fulfilling a season of prophetic EARC success, which began with the team’s first dual victory over the Crimson...
That is precisely what the city and state want. In announcing evacuation plans in early May, the city's embattled Mayor Ray Nagin, who won re-election Saturday, pointedly noted that there would be no shelter of last resort like the Superdome or "vertical" evacuations to hotels downtown. He said the city would be calling more readily for evacuations, ordering everyone out for a hurricane as weak as Category 2. The state last week geared up shelter plans, identifying places for 55,000 evacuees--more space than was available last year after the Superdome closed. In addition to Red Cross...
...from the countryside to the capital after Maoists murder her husband. That violent act underpins the story. "It was hard to believe that this country was becoming a place where people killed each other over differences in ideas about how to govern it," ponders Pitamber, a man who gives shelter to the widow. But her influence on Pitamber and his family, which almost splits apart after she moves in, drives the action far more than the violence in her past...
Fourteen cents are devoted to Hope Lodges, which provide cancer victims and their families free shelter while they receive treatment away from home...
Jorge Johnson, 40, moved to Houston about a month after Katrina, after spending several weeks in a Baton Rouge shelter. A construction worker and painter originally from Honduras, Johnson had lived in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He evacuated in his 2003 blue Dodge Caravan with his girlfriend, her sister and her sister's boyfriend. The boyfriend, Dwight Robertson, was Johnson's friend as well, so they all stuck together after the storm...