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...something else about Katrina bound Clinton and Bush even tighter: both men had deep emotional ties to the Gulf Coast. Bush made his fortune in oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico during the 1950s, when offshore drilling was still considered risky. And it was in the now infamous New Orleans Superdome that he snared the G.O.P. nomination in 1988 and spoke of a "kinder, gentler" nation. To Clinton, New Orleans was also promised land: his mother worked at the city's Charity Hospital while he was being raised by his grandparents in Arkansas, and it was to Louisiana...
...debris than I was about what was beneath the water I was walking into," says Jones, who usually dives off placid sites like Key West, Fla., and Cozumel, Mexico. Still, the rising tide was "real dark, murky and stinky." He plunged in--at one point stepping perilously into a deep hole left by a water meter the hurricane had torn out--found the drain, dived and cleared it. The waters began to recede, and Jones' neighborhood was spared the disaster that destroyed hundreds of other Biloxi homes and took scores of lives...
...because they had once appeared in a dream. Every week for 15 years, he bet religiously on the numbers and lost. Then in November 2001, when the jackpot rose to $55.2 million, Khan's lucky numbers finally came through. He pulled his taxi over to the curb, took a deep breath and thought of his mother, whose dying words to him were, "One day, son, you're going to be somebody--like a king." Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently
...just go off. If you hung out with us, it gets quite jazz. We're united by deep curiosity. So from stand-up comedy to quantum physics, there's nothing we don't cover. For me, that's what makes [good] company...
...months after Conrad K. Harper resigned from the Harvard Corporation in July, 22 Caucus members published a letter in Harvard Magazine addressed to the committee searching for Harper’s replacement. The letter called for the committee to appoint a Corporation member who would “have deep knowledge of and a close affiliation with the academic world.” This month, the search committee appointed Patricia A. King, a Georgetown law professor and expert in bioethics, to replace Harper...