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The private response was all the more urgent because the public one seemed so inept. Somehow Harry Connick Jr. could get to the New Orleans Convention Center and offer help, but not the National Guard. Bush praised the "good work" on Thursday, then called the results "not acceptable" on Friday...
When Dr. Greg Henderson, a pathologist turned field medic, arrived at the Convention Center on Friday, he was the only doctor for 10,000 people. "They're stacking the dead on the second floor," he told TIME by phone. "People are having seizures in the hallway. People with open running...
Meanwhile, in the strange parallel universe of Washington press conferences, federal officials regularly congratulated one another. "I think it is a source of tremendous pride to me to work with people who have pulled off this really exceptional response," Chertoff said Thursday. In an interview with National Public Radio, he...
I appreciated reading young Duresny Nemorin's personal essay "Poetry Is What I Love." Thirteen-year-olds are the most exciting students to teach because they are so spontaneous and filled with curiosity about life. Writing a poem on the theme "Who Am I?" is an assignment I learned about...
MIKE WAGERS, taxi driver whose suspicions led police to capture a couple who claimed, during a 115-mile cab ride, to be headed to an Amway convention in Columbus, Ohio, but turned out to be an escaped prisoner and his wife, who that day had killed a guard during her...