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Level -> And now.... the news. (7/3/2007 3:52:51 AM)
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NEW ORLEANS - The government's repairs to New Orleans' hurricane-damaged levees may put the French Quarter in greater danger than it was before Hurricane Katrina, a weakness planners said couldn't be helped, at least for now.
Experts say the stronger levees and flood walls could funnel storm water into the cul-de-sac of the Industrial Canal, only 2 miles from Bourbon Street, and overwhelm the waterway's 12-foot-high concrete flood walls that shield some of the city's most cherished neighborhoods.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19569767
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter defended conservative pundit Ann Coulter’s incendiary commentary Monday, saying Coulter was “closely approaching that level of being a great American.”
The comments by Hunter, a Republican representative from California, came in an interview on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” where he was asked for his reaction to criticism of Coulter by Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, a Democratic presidential candidate.
***editorial comment by ye old Level: loFuckinglol at "great American"***
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19570266
ACCRA, Ghana - African leaders argued fiercely on Monday over whether to rapidly create a single state stretching from the Cape Town to Cairo, with one small group threatening to break away and forge ahead with the project.
Delegates said the atmosphere in an African Union summit was charged as a group of states led by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade argued with a more gradualist majority led by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki.
"I think everybody is a little bit tense, because they know how serious this is," Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19570933
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected a proposal by Oscar-winning movie director Oliver Stone to make a film about him because Stone is part of the “Great Satan” cultural establishment, a semiofficial news agency reported.
“I sent a negative answer by Ahmadinejad to Oliver Stone,” the Fars agency quoted Mehdi Kalhor, media adviser to the president, as saying Sunday. “It is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S., but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19571993
BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's government anti-slavery team freed more than 1,000 laborers from inhumane working conditions on a sugar cane plantation in the Amazon, officials said Monday.
The International Labor Organization in a statement called it the largest single bust ever made in Brazil, where some 160 illegal work sites have been raided in the past few years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19571117
NEW ORLEANS - For proof that Hurricane Katrina is transforming the ethnic flavor of New Orleans — and creating altogether new tensions — look no further than the taco trucks.
Lunch trucks serving Latin American fare are appearing around New Orleans, catering to the immigrant laborers who streamed into the city in search of work after Katrina turned much of the place into a construction zone.
The trucks are a common sight in barrios from Los Angeles to New York, but controversial in a city still adapting to a threefold increase in Hispanics since Katrina.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19567902
WASHINGTON - A key auto industry group on Monday endorsed a House proposal to increase gas mileage standards for new passenger vehicles to at least 32 miles per gallon by 2022, calling it a more reasonable approach than a Senate plan approved last month.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG, said it would build support for the plan to require cars and trucks to go farther on a gallon of gasoline. The group opposes a competing measure that would demand 35 mpg for new vehicles by 2018.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19553789
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