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...That, more than anything, may be the most ominous result of the first round of elections in New Orleans. Eight months after Hurricane Katrina, the patience - and hope - of displaced voters is wearing thin, and many seem to have all but given up on the city...
...Blue Nile will be faced with a firm reaction on the part of Egypt, even if that action should lead to war." It's easy to understand Egypt's motives: the Nile is a lifeline for the country's 74 million people, over 90% of whom live along a thin strip of fertile land that hugs the river's banks. The Nile also feeds a vast network of Egyptian irrigation canals that nourish the plots of peasant farmers such as Mohammed Sorour, 43, father of seven. "All the time, we have water," smiles Sorour, who plants molokhiyya, a leafy vegetable...
...Browner said. She went on to excoriate those who question the science supporting global warming, directing sharp criticism at author Michael Crichton ’64 whose book, “State of Fear,” argues that the scientific evidence for climate change is thin. Browner said that many people who deny climate change are using Crichton, who has no formal scientific training, as their “main source,” and that he has briefed President Bush and testified before the Senate as an “expert witness” on climate science...
...busy. Ingber himself hasn’t had much time for comedy in the past three years due to his involvement with the a capella group the Din and Tonics and Hasty Pudding Theatricals.IMPROV-MENTSThe real hotbed of performance comedy at Harvard are its extracurricular improvisational comedy groups, On Thin Ice (OTI) and the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP).OTI—which specializes in comedy improv based around two-minute games à la TV’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”—will perform at the Demon ComedyFest...
...shots of grungy urban blocks, and throughout it all, Lupe himself dipping about amicably. Half the pleasure is in seeing the decidedly gawky Fiasco jerking around in front of the camera. Swimming in an oversized hoodie, with a jumbo pair of glasses perched on his nose, he bobs his thin neck to the jazzy beat with a positively adorable sincerity. The cycle gets predictable quickly though—a lone skater rolling past a sinister apartment block, a kick-flip down some stairs, then more head-bobbing. Nevertheless, Fiasco brings a nice change of pace; he doesn?...