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The good times were rolling but with a different feeling this year as New Orleans celebrated the famed Mardi Gras season for the first time since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area. This year, residents had mixed feelings about whether to proceed with the festivities.

When people think of Mardi Gras, they generally think of New Orleans, but historians say the tradition actually started in Mobile, Alabama.

Nearly 200 port workers in Newark, New Jersey joined U.S. senators in protesting a bargain that allows a foreign company to control entrance into six major U.S. seaports. The White House brokered the deal that gives control to a business backed by the United Arab Emirates, a nation some say fosters terrorism against the United States. The deal will be reviewed during the next six weeks.

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March 3, 2006