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U.S. drops banning media from body hunt — CNN filed suit for access to search for New Orleans' dead — HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans.
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Washington Post:
Death Toll of 10,000 Now Called Unlikely — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9 — City officials said Friday that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath may be far lower than originally feared, as troops and police shifted their attention from rescue of the living to recovery of those who died here in the past 11 days.
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Ed Driscoll / Ed Driscoll.com:
Katrina Snuff Films: This Is CNN — CNN's situational ethics swing into action again. … It's amusing to go back and look at the media's mindset back then: … If it wasn't necessary to show people plunging to their death, why is it necessary to show them after they drowned?
Scott Ott / ScrappleFace:CNN Petitions to Dig Up Hastily-Buried Flood Victims
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The Liberal Avenger:
WINGNUT OUTRAGE OVER FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL — Let's build a memorial to the tragedy and heroism of 9/11's Flight 93 which crashed in a field in rural Shanksville in Western Pennsylvania! What a great idea! — A committee was formed of surviving 9/11 family members, people from the community and designers/architects.
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Michelle Malkin:
FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: SEEING IS BELIEVING — Tons of you are stunned, outraged, and sickened by the new Flight 93 Memorial, the "Crescent of Embrace." I called the architect responsible for the redesign, Paul Murdoch of Los Angeles, yesterday for comment. He did not return my call …
rawstory.com:
SIXTY-SIX PERCENT DISSATISFIED WITH DIRECTION OF COUNTRY — SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT OF MINORITIES BELIEVE RACE WAS THE REASON FOR SLOW RESPONSE: 47 PERCENT SAY 'MAJOR REASON;' — 64 PERCENT OF WHITES SAY IT WAS NOT A REASON AT ALL — New York-President George W. Bush's approval ratings …
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Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Eye of the Political Storm — A new NEWSWEEK poll suggests President Bush could become Katrina's next casualty. — Sept. 10, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina claimed her first political casualty Friday. Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, the federal disaster readiness and response agency …
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Anita Kumar / St. Petersburg Times:
'Average' past trails troubled FEMA chief — WASHINGTON - In 2002, a pair of FBI agents showed up at a small, well-known law firm near Oklahoma City, asking questions about Mike Brown, a former employee being considered for a job at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:Embattled Brown Taken Off Katrina Duty
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Kathryn Cramer:
FEMA Needs to Tell People What It Intends for Their Homes — I had a fairly thorough look through the FEMA website, and no where could I find any mention of any plans to tell people FEMA's intentions for their homes. There are instructions for registering a claim with FEMA …
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William L. Taylor / New York Review of Books:
John Roberts: The Nominee — The most intriguing question about John Roberts is what led him as a young person whose success in life was virtually assured by family wealth and academic achievement to enlist in a political campaign designed to deny opportunities for success to those who lacked his advantages.
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Washington Post:
Gonzales Is Defended As Suitable for Court — Allies Call Attorney General a True Conservative — Supporters of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales have launched a campaign to rebut criticism that he is not reliably conservative enough to serve on the Supreme Court …
Associated Press:
Gore airlifts victims from New Orleans — Former vice president chartered two private aircraft — KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
World summit on UN's future heads for chaos — UK leads last minute effort to rein in US objections — The British government is mounting a huge diplomatic effort this weekend to prevent the biggest-ever summit of world leaders, designed to tackle poverty and overhaul the United Nations, ending in chaos.
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Seattle Times:
Local FEMA chief had little disaster experience — John Pennington, the official in charge of federal disaster response in the Northwest, was a four-term Republican state representative who ran a mom-and-pop coffee company in Cowlitz County when then-Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn helped him get his federal post.
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Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
Security Contractors in Iraq Under Scrutiny After Shootings — IRBIL, Iraq — The pop of a single rifle shot broke the relative calm of Ali Ismael's morning commute here in one of Iraq's safest cities. — Ismael, his older brother Bayez and their driver had just pulled into traffic behind …
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Some GOP Legislators Hit Jarring Notes in Addressing Katrina — Some lawmakers are still struggling to find the sympathetic but diligent tone that a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina — and the lagging government response to its victims — would seem to call for.
Brian DeBose / Washington Times:
Blacks fault lack of local leadership — Some in the black community are beginning to question what happened to the black leadership during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, especially in the city of New Orleans. — While a few black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson …
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Los Angeles Times:
A Barrier That Could Have Been — Congress OKd a project to protect New Orleans 40 years ago, but an environmentalist suit halted it. Some say it could have worked. — In the wake of Hurricane Betsy 40 years ago, Congress approved a massive hurricane barrier to protect New Orleans from storm surges that could inundate the city.
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Robert E. Pierre / Washington Post:
New Orleans Mayor Faces Tough Questions — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9 — Mayor C. Ray Nagin created many new friends and probably as many enemies for his decision to pointedly chastise both Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) and the Bush administration for talking too much and working too little.
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