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After Hurricane Andrew tore across South Florida in 1992, the slow federal response exasperated Hale, then Dade County's director of emergency management. She famously said on TV, "Where the hell is the cavalry on this...
...people of Banda Aceh. And now I can't imagine how Aceh would be able to get back on its own feet without the solidarity of the world community. We lost 62,000 lives in Banda Aceh alone. It's been eight months since the tsunami struck. Look how slow the rebuilding of people's houses has been...
Duke University officials were slow to respond to the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team because Durham police officials doubted the accuser and grossly underestimated the seriousness of the allegations, according to a report released on Monday by a special committee formed to examine the administration's role in the incident...
...effect that the accuser "kept changing her story and was not credible" and that if charges were brought, "they would be no more than misdemeanors" and that this would "blow over." The report suggests that the comments by Durham police officers were one reason Duke officials were so slow to respond to the incident. It found no cover-up by Duke officials but did find a communication gap among Duke administrators...
...Blair's style of governing is also coming back to haunt him. He has often upraided his own party for being slow to modernize. That worked while he was a winner, but now that he's in decline, MPs who have built up years of resentment for being ignored and tightly managed by Downing St. apparatchiks have an opportunity for revenge. Many are focusing their anger on Blair's reforms...