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Finally, they reached Yolanda's father's house in Port St. John, Fla., where they rested for a few days. But they were having trouble getting a wheelchair and other assistance for Yolanda's mother. Jan convinced Yolanda that their best bet was to return to Boston, where they had met and married before moving to Louisiana only two months before Katrina's landfall. "I've been a Bostonian all my life. They'll help us there," she said. Jan and Sonny, 5, went to Boston to look for options. Meanwhile, Yolanda signed up on openyourhome.com The next...
...evacuees, the constitutionality of assistance matters far less than the assistance itself. The day before Katrina hit, Albert and Anne Betz moved with Jane Todd, 10, and Owen, 7, out of soon-to-be drowned Pass Christian, Miss., and into a condo in Sandestin, Fla. Back home, Anne had taught at the children's private Episcopal school, but the couple heard that the best schools near Sandestin were public and were happy with the one to which their kids were assigned. Within days, however, Anne received a letter from the Walton County School District stating that the onslaught of evacuees...
...President George W. Bush announces that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended"; soon after, General Tommy Franks moves his headquarters from Qatar to Tampa, Fla. may Saddam meets secretly in a car in Baghdad with four advisers, including a representative of Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri (Saddam's former No. 2) and Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmed of the top-secret Military Bureau. Saddam tells them to start "rebuilding your networks" and later sends instructions on how to conduct a guerrilla...
...save what was left, Lacoste (which is still family owned) partnered with clothing licensor Devanlay to buy back the U.S. rights in 1992, and then got out of town. Lacoste returned to Palm Beach and Bal Harbor, Fla., three years later and attempted to reclaim its upper-class cachet. But the next six years were a struggle for the brand...
Mark Partridge�Miner remembers lying on a beach in St. Augustine, Fla., looking at the stars and wishing he were fighting in Iraq. So he dropped out of college and volunteered. When he arrived last November, he spent months grudgingly guarding a gate to Baghdad International Airport and yearning to be on the convoys heading into the red zone. His early posts, some of which are addressed to the insurgents ("The whites of my eyes are the last thing you will see before you kiss the feet of my God ..."), are zealous and antsy for action. His later ones, after...