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...Roads? There are no roads being built. Bridges? There are no bridges being built. Harbors? There are no harbors being built." KUNTORO MANGKUSUBROTO, head of the Agency for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Aceh, on the $5 billion in tsunami relief money he claims has not been disbursed because of Indonesia's slow bureaucracy...
...Zellweger and Chesney) Met at NBC's tsunami-relief telethon in January...
Your story about the rocky economy and tough criticism faced by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan was titled "Greenspan's Deficits" [May 2]. That's unfair and misleading. It's like calling the Indian Ocean catastrophe "Bush's tsunami." Notwithstanding some bumps along the road, Greenspan has presided over a period of great prosperity. Today's massive deficits stem from a bipartisan band of congressional spendthrifts and our purportedly conservative President. Greenspan sets banking and monetary policy. He has no control over the insatiable thirst of elected officials to spend, spend, spend...
...resign, but he is taking what city spokeswoman Marlene Feist calls "a vacation ... to sort this situation out." So far, few Republican leaders have demanded he step down. One exception is Shaun Cross, a Spokane conservative who ran for Congress last year. The mayor, he says, "has created a tsunami of hypocrisy." Feist says Spokane's response has been mixed. Some people have called in sounding supportive, some upset. Still others say West is in their prayers. --Reported by Sandeep Kaushik/Spokane
...opinions expressed in your story are untimely and irresponsible, especially as this tiny country, largely dependent on tourism, struggles to relaunch its tourism industry after the devastating tsunami of Dec. 26. The verifiable scientific knowledge on the effects of a rise in sea level is scanty. To the contrary, there is a school of thought that believes the sea-level rise doomsday scenario is a storm in a teacup. Sim I. Mohamed Secretary General Maldives Association of Tourism Industry Mal?, the Maldives...