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...five-foot doors (to satisfy fire codes) and, improbably, translucent walls. The recently released office assignments show that many student groups will be sharing the office space between these light-permeable pieces of plastic. Some of the office assignments have an air of hilarity. From them, you can almost reconstruct what must have been agonizing discussions by the committee charged with divvying up Hilles’ offices. Perhaps Harvard’s World Model United Nations and International Business Club—which share the same office—will join forces to embezzle profits from a model...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: Two Steps Forward... | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...arrival, the water rose to just underneath his chin when he stood inside his house. Fountain evacuated to the Convention Center. When he returned to his home, he slept on the roof rather than inside his wet house. While others in Fountain’s neighborhood have tried to reconstruct their one-level homes or have opted to simply start new lives in new cities, Fountain has chosen to cope with Hurricane Katrina the way Petruccio deals with his Kate in “The Taming of the Shrew.” He will not bow under her fuss...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet My Wife, Katrina | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...neighborhood of Gentilly, Smith, looking down at the remains of her home, remembered what it had looked like before.“It was so nice,” she said.Few of the student volunteers had known New Orleans before the storm, though, and they were left to reconstruct mental images of what the Big Easy once had been.ANOTHER KIND OF TRAUMAResearch suggests that trauma is not confined to the immediate victims of a disaster. Relief workers and volunteers—the second wave of people on the scene——are often shaken as well.Professor...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Affected By Relief | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...dance community at last night’s meeting declared its support for a plan that would reconstruct their dance floor anew. Philip Burling, a tango dancer, said that dancers are fond of the floor but understand that it may have to be renovated. “The reason we love it so much is that it’s got this give—it bounces a little, but that also makes it structurally unstable,” he said...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher and Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: City Dancers Search for Space | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...congressional delegation, state and local leaders, Mayor Ray Nagin and parish officials to rebuild the Gulf Coast communities in a way that will give people the confidence to return. That will require a strong hurricane-protection system of safe levees and coastal wetlands, updated building codes so people can reconstruct with a sense of security, business incentives that will create opportunity, and school reforms that will draw people home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Give In to Katrina Fatigue | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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