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...saving New Orleans will require not merely re-creating the French Quarter. It will involve nurturing back to health the genuine and distinctive neighborhoods that serve as an incubator for the city's music and food and funkiness. A friend of mine, Stephanie Bruno, has run an organization that restores old shotgun cottages, the long and narrow houses built of old barge planks that dominate in the older areas. A New Orleans rebuilt with tract homes rather than shotguns would no longer have the same soul...
...often more effective. They underline the truth that France is a prosperous nation whose public services are often superb and whose private companies are frequently world-beaters. And they undermine the international cliché - a cliché the French themselves like to propagate - that France is impossible to change. Bruno Parent is one of the change agents. He's a top civil servant at the Finance Ministry and played a key role in bringing about the transformations there. The failed Sautter plan would have cut costs by merging two huge tax administrations within the ministry. Both are still in place...
...precise path the earthquake took. Working with old photographs, Prentice has found a number of the missing signs of 1906--abrupt jogs in fences that once straddled the rupture zone, for example--and located them on aerial photos. Among the communities bisected by the fault break is San Bruno, a city of 40,000 that borders San Francisco international airport...
...Bruno, a white schoolteacher in real life, believes that blacks could defuse racism with a more positive attitude and are too quick to "play the race card" and "come from a place of self-pity"; he's stubbornly determined to show that, if he gives off a positive vibe, he won't encounter racism. Carmen is the well-meaning daughter of parents who were active in the civil rights movement, but she has had little personal contact with blacks. She refers to one of her daughter's black friends as a "magnificent black creature," and, in a role-play...
...show's most uncomfortable scenes involve the use of the word nigger. Bruno announces that he can't wait for some racist to call him the name; it never happens, but he and Carmen hear the word dozens of times when they visit a black comedy club. Meanwhile, Nick, who says he has never been affected by racism, tells a group of white friends who know he's black that he doesn't care if they use the word, to his parents' mortification. (Nick and Rose's lack of racial baggage will strike viewers as either hopeful or naive...