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...YORK Mauboussin The French jeweler opens Stateside this month, offering jewelry, watches and even an Atelier du Chocolat...
...measure up to the standards of either a great writer or a great man.A quick glance into the biographies behind the marbled busts of the literary pantheon is enough to reveal an abyss that separates these two distinctions. The debauched aesthetes of the 19th century, intoxicated with les fleurs du mal and the Baudelairean myth of a mysterious alchemy between vice and lyrical vision, now look frivolous from the vantage point of this more cynical era. Over time, evil has lost much of its aesthetic appeal. Society has learned to distinguish between admiration for art and abhorrence of the artist?...
...after Hurricane Gustav battered this coastal region, along Highway 57 from Houma, cars dodged downed power lines, felled oak trees, and an occasional dead turtle. "You LOOT, we SHOOT," read one wooden sign that'd been attached to one home's front door. Du Lac, not far from Cocodrie where Gustav made landfall, is so sparse it doesn't feel like much of a town. It's a set of trailers and single-level homes, often built on stilts, some rising some 10, 20, even 30 feet into the air above marshes...
Washington bureaucrats often act as if they alone know how best to protect low-lying areas like Du Lac from flooding. Truth is, the folks who've spent their entire lives on the water have their own insights. Take Chris DeJean, 24. On Tuesday afternoon, DeJean was clearing debris from his shrimping boat, which floated in the bayou directly behind the home he shares with his mother. Like many people here, DeJean's roots in Du Lac run deep. His mother was born 40 years ago in the house right across the street. His grandmother was born there...
...most vivid reflection of Katrina's lessons was on the streets of New Orleans. Barely a soul walked the streets last night. Even Bourbon Street's pubs were shuttered. Network television satellite trucks were perched perfectly across Jackson Square. Nearby, photographers positioned themselves in front of a Cafe du Monde that lacked both chairs and the famous beignets. Elsewhere in the city, New Orleans evacuees had put their cars on the "neutral ground," as the space between the lanes of streets is called here, hoping that might save their vehicles from flooding. Never mind that the patch of land...