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Scherer, who was in Roberts’ first year section, remembers that Roberts, who became a fast friend, thrived...
...gives me an appreciation of how difficult it is to dry out a building,” said Lichten, “and this was just a single section of a single building...
James Mosley was both too poor and too proud to leave. His legs were paralyzed since childhood, but it meant the world to James, 52, to strut his independence: he insisted on living by himself in a small, green cinderblock house in the working-class section of Biloxi, Miss., called Point Cadet. And whenever hurricanes approached the Gulf Coast, James adamantly refused suggestions that, given his wheelchair-bound vulnerability, he should evacuate. Says his brother Robert, "He had a big, brave heart...
...Brown's lack of experience in emergency management isn't the only apparent bit of padding on his resume, which raises questions about how rigorously the White House vetted him before putting him in charge of FEMA. Under the "honors and awards" section of his profile at FindLaw.com - which is information on the legal website provided by lawyers or their offices-he lists "Outstanding Political Science Professor, Central State University". However, Brown "wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here," says Charles Johnson, News Bureau Director in the University Relations office at the University of Central Oklahoma...
From his home in nearby White River Junction, Vt., Levenson drives to Dartmouth-Hitchcock in his 1988 stick-shift Chevrolet Nova. He does all his murals--for which he charges only the cost of materials--in the oncology section because his mother and the first of his three wives died of cancer. "The patients' conversations feed me--they keep me alert," says Levenson, who places an empty chair next to his easel to invite kibitzing while he works...