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APPOINTED. DONALD POWELL, 64, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and former Texas banker and fund raiser for George W. Bush; as federal hurricane reconstruction czar; two months after Katrina thrashed the Gulf Coast; in Washington. To critics who questioned Powell's lack of experience in disaster relief, his new boss, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, said hurricane victims deserved his "leadership" and "optimism...
...rebuild a business wiped clean by Hurricane Katrina? Start by dodging the M16s. A week after the storm pummeled the Gulf Coast in late August, Tim Spero, the chief technology officer for the NBA's New Orleans Hornets, drove to the team's training facility in Westwego, La., with a fellow Hornets employee and two friends. Their mission: to retrieve the team's teal uniforms, a batch of video equipment and a few computers to ship to another city when--or if--the Hornets started their preseason training camp. Reports of violence and looting had spread to Westwego; the team...
...Orleans or diaspora cities from Atlanta to Washington, needed to secure new sponsorships, resell tickets and replace everything from the team's marketing director--too stressed to keep working, to the mascot's costume, soiled by flooding. The Hornets offer a glimpse into the cruel challenge many Gulf Coast businesses now face post-Katrina: trying to mend a brand while managing social trauma. Hornets president Paul Mott says, "This has been like one long, long, long...
...dark morning arrived Sunday, Aug. 28, the day before Katrina's Gulf Coast landfall, when the last of the team's workers evacuated New Orleans. Hours before gale-force winds started picking up steam, Mott and the families of three Hornets workers boarded team owner George Shinn's private plane for San Antonio, Texas. Basketball administration chief Steve Martin, a New Orleans native, woke up that morning expecting to ride out the storm. He finally relented at 8 a.m., when he called Mott to ask whether there was any room on the plane for him, his wife...
Still, the pace of his campaign slowed earlier this fall when its manager, Alan Dobson, who also works for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, relocated to the Gulf Coast to help with recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina...