Ed Blakely, the Bush-appointed "recovery czar" after Hurricane Katrina, is going to make a Sydney, Australia mall Brooklyn-cool with talent shows, kid contests (whatever that means) and flower shows. "We're not going to plan, we're going to do," Blakely said. Hopefully he'll refrain from calling Sydney "third world," referring to its citizens as "buffoons," and grossly misreporting population numbers. [The Gambit]
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