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...administration for gutting the agency and criticized the rise of political appointments at agencies such as FEMA. “Our country has never seen a response that failed so bad,” Witt said of the government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina. “Thirteen hundred people did not have to lose their lives.” Witt also called for carefully orchestrated urban planning in the reconstruction of New Orleans and a commitment to rebuild the wetlands of the Mississippi delta. Approximately fifty people, primarily faculty and graduate students, attended the symposium. Panelist Frederic...
...hours before the most important race of his career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...
...Thirteen professors assailed Summers at yesterday’s full meeting of the Faculty, including two who suggested it was time for Summers to resign...
Because the Time Warner board has thirteen directors elected through a plurality voting system, Icahn would have to identify eight current directors whom he wants his allies to vote against. When asked if Clark was one of his targets, Icahn initially said that all the directors were at fault for Time Warner’s performance, but later backtracked and pointed out that Clark was not a member of the board that approved what he deemed the disastrous merger between Time Warner and America Online...
...came within one rebound of a double-double. Her nine rebounds led the team, and she added two blocks for good measure. Colgate fought hard to come back in the second half, drawing within 18 points at 65-37 after two three-pointers by senior Meghan Curtin with thirteen minutes left. Harvard followed by scoring the next seven points, however. The 80 points that Harvard scored?as well as the 20 points that it allowed in the first half?are both season bests. Senior Laura Robinson scored ten points on 5-of-8 shooting, and added five assists...