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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (251903)9/18/2005 7:05:02 PM
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"after receiving the direst of warnings in a dinner-time phone call at home from National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield a day-and-a-half before landfall"

Yep, Max called on Friday evening to issue a warning, not a demand. In many ways it was a gutsy call, hurricanes are notoriously difficult to call more than 48 hours out. But Max is good.

Bush, OTOH, call just minutes before Blanco and Nagin were to have their press conference announcing the ME. Now you might believe that they prepared the plans and wrote their speeches in those few minutes, but...
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