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...event, hosted by Adams House’s race relations tutors, spotlighted a group of four students who had flown to Baton Rouge last Monday on short notice...
Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter brought a team of four Harvard Medical School professors and two Harvard-affiliated psychologists to Baton Rouge, along with the four students: Nneka C. Eze ’07, Jennifer N. Green ’07, Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06, and Michael L. Nguyen...
...ties to the Bush Administration, including Bechtel, Fluor and the Shaw Group, which recently built a helicopter pad for Vice President Dick Cheney's home in Washington. A $3 billion engineering-and-consulting behemoth that has equally close connections to the Louisiana Democratic Party, the Shaw Group, based in Baton Rouge, La., counts former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh as one of its lobbyists in Washington and has scored two separate $100 million Katrina-related contracts--one to help the Army Corps of Engineers pump water out of New Orleans and another to help FEMA provide temporary housing. Soon after...
...stoic Monique M. Jordan, 27, meandered through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport last Thursday, seeking a way out of homelessness. Far from her flooded home located in the lower Ninth Ward—one of the poorest and hardest hit areas of New Orleans—she thinks the irony of Katrina is that it will provide a route out of poverty for the downtrodden...
Madhu Beriwal equates disaster planning with marathon running. "You train and time yourself and figure out what you need to do to achieve it," she says. As the president of Innovative Emergency Management, Inc., in Baton Rouge, La., Beriwal knows about training for marathon-size catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina. Her company played a role in the Hurricane Pam simulation, which involved almost 300 officials getting ready for a major-category storm hitting New Orleans. But after witnessing the devastation left by Katrina and the blundered response from relief officials, Beriwal wonders if the training needs to be rethought. "The system...