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...rain is coming in patches. A few fences are down but there is no sign of large-scale flooding - yet. However, just before noon, Maj. Tim Kurgan, spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans district, said there was "overtopping" (that is, spilling over) on the western side of the Industrial Canal which has three main tributaries: Lake Pontchartrain, the Intercoastal Water Way, and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, commonly known as "Mr. Go." Gustav's heavy winds have apparently pushed water into the Industrial Canal from those three areas. Kurgan said the last reading on the Industrial Canal...
...around. He stood there not as an orator, but as a plausible chief executive. His message was as tight as a power-point presentation, but far more elegant. And tough - above all, tough: not an egghead, not Adlai Stevenson. No, tonight Barack Obama was a politician from the south side of Chicago, ready for the brawl of his life...
...women who might give McCain another look now that Palin will be at his side...
...office satellite photos indicating that the river had slowly been changing course for years, but that the previous administration failed to reinforce the areas where embankments were coming under increased pressure. Because the Kosi River lies along Bihar's border with Nepal and initially breached on the Nepali side, whatever efforts Kumar did make may have been slowed down. The Indian Express newspaper reported that Kumar sought help from the central government in getting Nepal's co-operation, but was rebuffed...
...told the roaring crowd, Democrats gave him the honor of leading them: "We prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be Commander in Chief. Sound familiar?" It didn't work then, he said, "because we were on the right side of history. And it won?t work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history." A President who spent eight years after the White House building himself into a global treasure and then ruined it in eight weeks on the campaign trail helped himself by helping...