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...aftermath of the hurricane brought these rudiments of humanity to mind. It was a case study in why societies exist-which may be the one good thing to emerge from this mess. We have grown accustomed to best-case scenarios in the U.S.; we have come to assume that we will always have electricity and fresh water and an endless pipeline of goods and services. We assume that we can always control our fate, that we are exempt from chaos, and that governance is a necessary evil rather than an essential good, the ultimate civilized defense against the rudeness...
...terrorists have nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with U.S. support for Israel. Syed Hasnain Ahmed Islamabad "The Condi Doctrine" compared U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with George Marshall, the U.S. Secretary of State responsible for the Marshall Plan, which helped rebuild Europe in the aftermath of World War II. To compare Rice with Marshall is like comparing a bad apple with a good one. The Marshall Plan helped restore Europe after a devastating war by relieving, as Marshall put it, "hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." The Condi (and Bush) doctrine attempts to restore Iraq...
President Woodrow Wilson called Griffith's fable about the Civil War and its aftermath "history written in lightning." Others decried it as a libel of blacks and a whitewash of the Ku Klux Klan. Both views are correct. Griffith was a racist and a film genius who poured his love for the Old South and his pioneering cinematic ingenuity into an epic that is at once malignant and magnificent...
Thousands stayed behind in the city or relied on strained rescue and relief efforts, many of them condemned by their poverty to ride out the storm and its aftermath or simply wary of a lifetime of boy-who-cried-wolf predictions. New Orleans' poverty and crime levels dwarf those of the rest of the nation, with a staggering percentage of black males seeing the inside of prisons during their lifetimes...
BATON ROUGE, La.—The campus of Louisiana State University (LSU) has morphed from a picturesque academic haven to a full-blown refugee center this week in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...