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...entire Louisiana coast. I'm thrilled to report that over the last year, the Corps has gently applied the brakes to those plans. That won't save the coast from Gustav; the storm is coming so soon after Katrina that there isn't much else to do except hope it weakens or misses. But over the next year, decisions about the coast could determine whether southern Louisiana can be sustainable, or whether the Katrinas and Gustavs of the future will obliterate it. "We're still vulnerable, no question about it," says John Lopez, director of coastal sustainability for the Lake...
This week, all Louisiana will have to hope that Gustav's haymaker misses the mark. But in the future, the coast is going to have to relearn how to block a punch...
...rebuilt, due mainly to issues involving the government and insurance companies. "I watch the BBC, where America goes to all these countries and rebuilds communities in a matter of days," my mom observed last night. "That just doesn't happen here. People are losing hope, people are tired." Nearly three-quarters of New Orleans' pre-storm population has returned since Katrina. Yet, in large swaths of the city, the fundamentals of community - schools, police stations, hospitals - have yet to be rebuilt. And don't get me started on grocery stores. When I went back to New Orleans for the Journal...
...turns out he still believes in a place called Hope...
...writing time comes late at night when he's all alone, scribbling on yellow legal pads. He then logs these thoughts into his laptop, editing as he goes along. This is how he wrote both of his two best selling books-Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope-staying up after Michelle and his two young daughters had long gone to bed, reveling in the late night quiet. For this speech Obama removed himself from the distractions at home and spent many nights in a room in the Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago. These late-night sessions produced...