| BANGLADESH: Death toll rises, relief operation geared up
Meanwhile, in New York UN Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said the UN would make available "several million dollars" for Bangladesh from the UN's Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), which was set up to expedite aid operations for emergencies.
"We will do all that we can to help, subject to what the government of Bangladesh would like us to do," Holmes told a press briefing.
The Brussels-based European Commission (EC) said it had released 1.5 million euros (US$2.2 million) in fast-track aid to help the most vulnerable.
"Preliminary indications are that the most pressing needs will be food, safe drinking water, emergency shelter, clothing, blankets and medicine," EC spokesman John Clancy said.
WFP biscuits
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Selected transcripts from the Mitchell report
To enable him to make that determination, I agreed to provide his office the opportunity to review this report three business days before it was released publicly. No material changes were made as a result of that review. I was assisted in this investigation by lawyers from the firm of DLA Piper US LLP and by several experts. They include Richard V. Clark, M.D., Ph.D., a leader in the fields of andrology and endocrinology and Richard H. McLaren, HBA, LL.B., LL.M., C. Arb., a professor of law at the University of Western Ontario and a distinguished arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport. I requested the production of relevant documents from the commissioner's office, each of the thirty major-league clubs, and the players association. We received and reviewed more than 115,000 pages of documents from the commissioner's office and the thirty clubs and over 20,000 electronic documents that were retrieved from the computer systems of the commissioner's office and some of the clubs.
Story lines
The star receiver of the Cowboys returned to the practice field Thursday in hopes of limping through tomorrow night's game against the New York Giants.
That's just a sampling of the interesting story lines that have developed around a postseason that could produce the first 19-0 Super Bowl champion. Here's a closer look at some of them:
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Obama: Beware 'Reverse Bradley'
This is not the man you want comprehensively reforming immigration. Dividing work into skilled jobs fit for Americans and unskilled jobs unfit for Americans is certainly one logical reaction to the increasing returns to smarts and skills in our economy. But, as Krikorian notes, it's a reaction that would alter America's essential self-conception. Democrats complain about the inegalitarian effect of various Republican tax cuts, but that's a minor and superficial inequality compared to formalizing the snobbery of the skilled. ... [via Sullivan and Rising Hegemon] 1:43 A.M. link Why Lie? The estimable Tom Maguire suggests that if Cheney aide Scooter Libby lied about Tim Russert telling him about Valerie Plame, it wasn't a lie that Libby "needed" to tell "in order to paint a useful deception." Libby's story was that Russert reminded him on July 10; he then talked to Rove, who told him that Novak had the story of Wilson's wife armed with these two reminders, Libby then leaked to Miller and Cooper, sourcing it as reporter gossip.
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