Mardi Gras revelers pack hopeful New Orleans
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana  - Mardi Gras revelers packed New Orleans on Saturday as large crowds turned out to watch parades and fill the French Quarter in what many viewed as another step in the long recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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The New Orleans Saints, a team that has never won anything, has lifted people up in the worst times of their lives and embodies the hope for a city that has almost nothing else.
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Parade fans camped along St. Charles Avenue, beer trucks lined up on Bourbon Street and revelers milled from bar to bar &#151; all signs that this city's Carnival season was rolling toward its annual Mardi Gras climax.
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Fans are eagerly anticipating the unfurling of the Indianapolis Colts' first championship banner, while downtown lightposts are covered in decorative signs promoting Thursday night's season opener against the New Orleans Saints.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Crowds were sparse and Mardi Gras costumes even sparser on Tuesday, with only a few people coming out before dawn to save spaces from which to watch what amounts to a day-long parade of parades - 11 of them, one after the other.
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NEW ORLEANS - A prized Mardi Gras tradition of passing elaborately decorated coconuts to paradegoers survived an insurance crisis, at least for this year.
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MIAMI -- Bryan Randall grabbed a set of Mardi Gras beads and waved them aloft, while his teammates exalted in the prospect of a trip to New Orleans.
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New Orleans plans a new &#36;700  million jazz district and central park, aiming to use the  devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina as an opportunity to  rebuild the damaged core of the city.
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British actor Rupert Everett and 250 men dressed as pop singer Kylie Minogue were among 8,000 revelers who marched through Sydney late Saturday for the 29th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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Thousands of people took to New Orleans' streets as Mardi Gras celebrations brightened a city still struggling to rebuild from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina.
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Hundreds of people braved the dreary weather Saturday to welcome home the Krewe of Gladiators Â and mark another, modest milestone in this region's recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower   Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd   a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing   high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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New Orleans readies for its second Mardi Gras since Hurricane Katrina, as two people die in violence.
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Thousands march in Sydney in the Mardi Gras festival, one of the world's biggest gay and lesbian celebrations.
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Newly re-elected Mayor Ray Nagin expressed confidence that political opponents and business leaders would unite to rebuild this hurricane-stricken city.
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Wearing beaded sunglasses with feathers, 83-year-old Lorraine&#13;&#10;McCaslin waved a green handkerchief as she danced in New Orleans'&#13;&#10;Woldenberg Park, ushering in what she says is her favorite time of year&#13;&#10; -  Mardi Gras
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana  - Gaily costumed revelers  shouting for beads lined the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday  for the city's annual spectacle of colorful debauchery as  Carnival season came to an end with the massive Mardi Gras, or  Fat Tuesday, celebration.