Superdome reopens in New Orleans
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New Orleans' Superdome stadium hosts its first game since Hurricane Katrina victims found refuge there last year.
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For a few hours Monday night, Harold Johnson hoped to forget about the storm that wrecked his home a year ago. He planned to sit with his neighbors outside his government-issue trailer and watch the New Orleans Saints' first home game since Hurricane Katrina on TV.
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NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue toured the hurricane-damaged Superdome on Tuesday with Saints owner Tom Benson and Gov. Kathleen Blanco, and was encouraged with the progress that has been made.
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Rookie Reggie Bush finishes with 141total yards to help lead the rebuilt New Orleans Saints to a season-opening 19-14 win over the Cleveland Browns.
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The New Orleans Saints' return home to the Superdome on Monday night drew the highest rating ever for ESPN and was the highest-rated program of the night on any network, broadcast or cable.
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A raucous Mardi Gras-like   atmosphere helped the New Orleans Saints crush the Atlanta   Falcons 23-3 on Monday in the first NFL game at the Superdome   since Hurricane Katrina.
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Signs of Hurricane Katrina's   devastation remain visible throughout this once-dynamic port   city, yet the resurrection of the iconic Superdome is symbolic   of its will to rebuild.
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The trip to San Diego was a return to where and when Joe Namath and the Jets of the old American Football League began to emerge as the Super Bowl III champions.
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By Anonymous  The New Orleans Police Department is teaming with the Boys & Girls Club and the National Football League on a kickoff party reopening of the NFL Youth Education  Town Center at North Broad Street and Earhart Boulevard from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 16.
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The Saints' triumphant return to New Orleans now includes the franchise's first playoff berth since 2000 -- not that they're in any mood to celebrate.
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The Saints' triumphant return to New Orleans now includes the franchise's first playoff berth since 2000 &#151; not that they're in any mood to celebrate. New Orleans made the playoffs by default Sunday, losing 16-10 to the Washington Redskins while the Saints' only remaining pursuer in the NFC South, Carolina, was eliminated from the division race by a loss to Pittsburgh.
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Milan's world-famous opera house La Scala is re-opening on Tuesday after a three-year closure for renovation.
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The Lincoln Memorial in Washington was re-opened to tourists on Monday after officials determined that suspicious items found on the site were not a danger, a U.S. government official said.
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At a low-key ceremony on Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France inaugurated La CitÃ© de lâArchitecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris, which reopened after an $114 million, decade-long makeover.
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As the water, if not the crisis, has receded in New Orleans, Brett Anderson has returned to his beat of covering the cityÂs legendary restaurant culture.
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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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A symbolic sense of normality will   return to this hurricane-ravaged city when the New Orleans   Saints host the Atlanta Falcons at the Superdome on Monday   night.