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Certainly it's what many people in this still struggling city are doing. Six months after Katrina, wide stretches of town remain dead zones, testimony not only to the power of the storm but also to the failure of politicians and bureaucrats to think on their feet. In the mostly deserted Ninth Ward, where many of the city's poorest African Americans lived, Barbara Hamilton is searching for an affordable apartment while trying to find financial help to rebuild her house. "The water's not safe to drink. We don't have no lights," says the 67-year-old great...
...Carol Bebelle, director of the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, which showcases African influences in New Orleans culture. "Grandmothers who had never gotten on a plane before did, just to get out of town. We've learned to accept change." In the same spirit, you keep hearing about how the storm created a clean slate to draw a new city on. New Orleans these days is full of planners, people coming up with schemes for a smarter, richer, better-organized city, all of them determined to prove that catastrophe is just another word for opportunity...
...this rather unscientific correlation, students at Cambridge University in England have given Facebook an anthem. The appropriately-titled “The Facebook Song,” written by two undergraduate music students—Tommy Hewitt Jones and Pete Foggitt—has taken the online community by storm, leaving in its wake polemical new groups on facebook.com, a renaissance for the synthesized orchestra hit, and increasingly vocal recognition for its composers ever since its web-launch in early February. According to Edward Bainton, a close friend of Jones and Foggitt who both produced and mastered the song...
...true that once upon a time, Larry commented on women in science. Yet it is wrong to point to this as the genesis of his troubles. Despite the storm that ensued, the anger from faculty members predated his catalytic remarks. Whether it was from depths of the African and African American Studies department or due to his heretical lack of manners that professors consistently complained about, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) members had set their sight on Larry far before last February. Yet they used that pretext to launch the first no-confidence vote. Because you were unfairly...
David R. Gergen, a professor of public service at the Kennedy School who has advised four U.S. presidents and counseled Summers during last winter’s women-in-science storm, said, “I never understood all the grievances that...