[In any case, the fallout from the failed plan seems to have been limited, said Tulane University President Scott Cowen, who serves on the mayor's rebuilding committee.] We have to develop a bigger plan for the city and figure out how the pieces fall into that plan, ... He floated that as an idea. One can say he shouldn't have floated it. But I think when he floats an idea and it doesn't get a lot of positive reaction, he'll say, 'OK, let's try something else.' |
[The BCS presidents] realized there was a public desire that we resolve this ourselves rather than decide it in courts or in Congress, ... We all put aside our egos and said, 'Let's come up with something.' |