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...days after Hurricane Katrina trashed the Gulf Coast, a radio talk-show host in Los Angeles asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice if it was true that President Bush does not care about black people. (She said no.) A man standing in the ruins in Gulfport, Miss., told the Vice President, "Go f___ yourself." (He smiled.) And the mayor of New Orleans secretly decamped for much of the week to Dallas to install his family there, refusing most media interviews, although the bodies had only begun to be counted in his drowned city. Even as soldiers swarmed into the Gulf...
...there are calls from Capitol Hill to return FEMA to the Cabinet as an independent agency. There are also calls for Brown's head. On Friday the Administration sent Brown back to D.C. and announced that Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen would take over the recovery effort. But, warns Bullock, the problem is bigger than Brown. "The system is broken, and firing Mike Brown is not going...
...moving in to pick up some slack. New York--based JetBlue, just five years old and the most successful low-fare start-up in history, will begin in November flying the Embraer 190--smaller planes that will allow the company to connect cities mainly up and down the East Coast. AirTran execs aren't too worried. "When the dust settles, we'll all be stronger," says Fornaro. The airlines that are still flying, that...
...think for a second we don't know about New Orleans. We have all listened to WWL radio. We have a saying here: "We may be in Purgatory on the Gulf Coast, but those poor souls in New Orleans are in the inner ring of Hell." I can't fully convey how poorly the officials both here and there failed in getting the word out to people who did not know how to handle themselves in a Category 4/5. I've lived here long enough and interviewed enough Hurricane Camille victims that when I battened down the hatches I made...
...Brown released by the White House at the time of his nomination in 2001 to the job as deputy chief of FEMA. On Friday, Brown, who became director of FEMA in 2003, was relieved of his duties handling the Katrina response and was replaced in that role by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen...