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Lieut. General Russel Honor?? has long legs, and he uses them to full effect. A lean 6 ft. 2 in., Honor?? strides across the deck of the U.S. warship Iwo Jima as aides rush to keep up. He strides into a room full of admirals and generals and barks out orders. ("I want you to go and get it done," he says, telling them he has no time for progress reports.) He strides down the streets of New Orleans to correct his soldiers' comportment; he strides down tarmacs to waiting helicopters. He strides away from the Governor of Louisiana...
With civilian authority in the Gulf Coast tangled in controversy, politics and bureaucracy, the only government endeavor that appears to be pursuing its mission efficiently is the U.S. military relief effort led by Honor??. Since he arrived in the region on Aug. 31, he has been packing two days into one, shuttling by helicopter along the storm- and flood-ravaged coast. When he sees a problem, he tackles it. He immediately pressured the Federal Government to move gasoline into damaged areas, for example, arguing that if people have gas, they can drive to designated pickup points for food and water...
...Honor?? seems uniquely qualified for the task. Until June 2004, he was the Standing Joint Force Headquarters--Homeland Security commander, responsible for studying a national response plan to a weapons-of-mass-destruction attack as well as for the onslaught of storms like Katrina. The office had conducted a study of what New Orleans should do after a direct hit by a massive hurricane. It concluded, says Honor??, that "there would be a lot of water" but never took into account levees bursting. A plan was in place to evacuate the city, he says as he surveys the detritus...
...Honor?? also says help should have come sooner. First responders hesitated, he says, because they were "afraid of big crowds of poor people." It was a case of "people believing the movie." But the city was not out of control, he concluded after delivering food and seeing the streets for himself. The subsequent forays by government forces may have reassured outsiders desperate that help get into the deluged city, but, says Honor??, they "just pissed off people inside the city. Imagine being rescued and having a fellow American point a gun at you. These are Americans. This is not Iraq...
...worry though: Levitt finds that most people don’t cheat. He made friends with an entrepreneur named Paul Feldman, who, over eight years, trustingly placed over a million bagels in D.C. offices next to a box asking for an “on your honor?? payment. He kept incredibly accurate records, and now we can see how cheating—in the form of “white collar crime”—varies over holidays (stealing increases dramatically over Christmas and decreases on the 4th of July) and during times of national crisis...