Film director Spike Lee has criticised the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort ahead of the premiere of his documentary about the disaster. 'The devastation here was not brought on solely by Mother Nature. People in charge were not doing their job,' he said at a New Orleans press conference. (BBC News, Thursday)
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