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...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-grandmother. "Everybody...
...obliged to respect the law like everyone else," he says. Mayer, meanwhile, fled the area and was later taken into custody across the border in Austria after crashing his car into a police roadblock. While denying allegations that he was involved in doping, Mayer checked into the psychiatric ward of an Austrian hospital, and told a local magazine that he was trying to kill himself when he crashed the car. Biathletes Wolfgang Rottmann and Wolfgang Perner, among the 10 Austrians tested, also checked out of the Olympics and returned home - and were thrown off the team for leaving without informing...
...great style. The costumes continue the Gothic flamboyance of the characterizations. They look like a head-on collision between “The Matrix” and 80’s-era Madonna, with a bit of gothic teen thrown in. Men are shirtless whenever possible, and Molly Ward who, in a bit of cross-gender casting plays Benvolio, wears a white sports bra and a full-torso tattoo. Another of the better departures from the original script is having the characters fight with knives and fists. Choreographed by Rod Kinter, this change gives the fight scenes a kinetic brutality...
...just one more thing we struggle with, trying to isolate things to deal with them.” Answering questions about why the students had been working in sites that seemed relatively well off compared to devastated areas such as New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, Bebelle admitted that there were questions about the wisdom of rebuilding particularly vulnerable areas of the city. “It’s politics,” said Bebelle. “Part of the Lower Ninth is only ‘look...
Despite his strong roots in Middlesex County politics, Reilly garnered little support from the 8th Ward activists. Schmidt, summing up the caucus’ mood, told the crowd that while “there is a huge amount of enthusiasm about Deval, there is literally none about Reilly...