I would be very surprised if some of these companies that have stakes in these projects don't already have their lawyers working on lawsuits.

[She also made enduring friendships with some of the other Rome Prize winners, and has ongoing collaborative projects with a few of them. Williams wrote a series of poems about the paintings of a painter-winner; one of them might be included with a December exhibit of those paintings. A composer-winner set two of her poems to music, for soprano and a small chamber ensemble, and these were performed at the Yale Summer Festival of Music.] We're trying to work on a larger collaborative project, ... His interpretation of the poems was so uncannily perfect to me. I was bracing myself - maybe it'll be good, maybe it'll be bad - and it was amazing. It was much better than I expected.

We have authorized the release of funds from existing projects, and we are preparing emergency assistance for those countries that will require additional financing,

Some projects go smoothly and some take longer. This is just one where it's taking longer to get the details worked out. We definitely still have a plan to build a store there.

What we have now is basically $68 million worth of projects that were recommended. Most of them were streets and there were a few million dollars for the jail.

Many of the other Big Ten schools are engaged in similar preparedness projects, most notably the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan have pretty well-thought-out plans at this point.