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...position to understand the odds. A city known both for its charm and its rot, not just from the termites consuming whole neighborhoods but from a corrupt police force, dissolving tax base, neglected infrastructure, rising poverty and a murder rate that inspired old-timers to pack a gun beneath their tuxes on their way to the Mardi Gras parade, could hardly have been less equipped to cope with a catastrophe that everyone knew was coming. "Half of Louisiana is under water," former lawmaker Billy Tauzin used to say, "and the other half is under indictment." Three of the top state...
...throughout and a security screening center with three walk-through explosives-detection machines capable of processing 2,800 passengers per hour. For meetings and layovers, a posh 298-room Grand Hyatt Hotel should take care of your needs. It's not all business, however: to enliven the commodious space beneath the building's almost 25-m ceilings, the airport has added paintings, multimedia displays, mosaics and such large sculptures as Crystal Mountain, above. But to many, the real work of art is Terminal D itself...
...time when the career of the man who was once the world's most famous literary novelist is in deep crisis. The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) was the last in a string of superhits that began with Midnight's Children (1981). Rushdie-watchers were divided about The Ground Beneath Her Feet(1999), but almost no one was prepared to stand up for Fury (2001), which tells the story of a middle-aged thinker who makes a fortune as a TV doll-maker, then flees a bad marriage and goes to New York. There, while falling in love with...
...rapes continued through the day. Kicked and beaten, their hands bound behind their backs, the women lay side by side on the dusty earth beneath Sudan's scorching sun. Nine in all, they were spoils of war, taken last April from their village of Khor Abeche in a dawn raid by the Arab militiamen known as Janjaweed, who had descended on camels and horses and in pickups mounted with machine guns. The women's village, on the cusp of rebel and government redoubts in South Darfur, was burned and looted; their husbands and fathers and brothers were shot when they...
These days Sunni and Shi'ite friends still sometimes sit together in the cafés, but the carefree ways of the past are gone. "Beneath our smiles, our hearts have closed," says a former army officer, a Sunni. "We no longer trust them, nor do they trust us." Residents believe the killers come from outside Washash, but they know there are informers within. Armed Shi'ite vigilantes patrol the streets, questioning strangers. Because Shi'ites are in the majority in Washash, the Sunnis tend to suffer more. Twenty-five Sunni men disappeared into police custody on Aug. 12, according...