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...when other books on Katrina started to appear in bookstores.And there were many other books, including Douglas Brinkley’s “The Great Deluge,” Michael E. Dyson’s “Come Hell or High Water,” and Ivor van Heerden’s “The Storm,” among others. But Horne’s book has received its fair share of praise, and has been called “the best of the Katrina books thus far” by National Public Radio...
...truth is, New Orleans, if hit, will flood. How badly depends on the hurricane. In his book The Storm (Viking; 320 pages), out this week, Louisiana State University researcher Ivor van Heerden argues that Katrina wasn't the mythical Big One, a frightening conclusion for a city entering a new hurricane season. The storm made landfall east of New Orleans as a fast-moving Category 3, he notes, but the winds that lashed the city--weakened by wetlands and miles of subdivisions--registered only as a Category 1. Van Heerden, deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center in Baton Rouge...
...Management Agency (FEMA) was demoted, subsumed by the new Department of Homeland Security. That was a mistake, says William Massey, who spent 24 years as FEMA's hurricane-program manager for the southeast U.S. before retiring last year. "The emphasis on terrorism has really hurt FEMA's efforts." When Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University (L.S.U.) Hurricane Center, suggested a year ago that the agency stockpile tents for when houses blow down, "this woman from FEMA said, 'Americans don't live in tents,'" van Heerden recalls. "I said to her, people will kiss your shoes...
...Ivor Roberts, Britain's Ambassador to Italy, declared last September that the "best recruiting sergeant for al-Qaeda" was none other than the U.S. President, George W. Bush. With the American election entering its final furlongs, he added, "If anyone is ready to celebrate the eventual re-election of Bush, it is al-Qaeda." The remarks, made at an off-the-record conference, were leaked in the Italian press, and Sir Ivor, facing the displeasure of his Foreign Office masters for committing the sin of candor, disowned the comments. But now, as the soot settles in the London Underground...
...album-opener “Jacqueline” begins deceptively, with desk workers Ivor and Jacqueline gazing longingly into one another’s eyes to the tune of an idly strummed guitar. It’s the album’s only peaceful moment, and a brief one at that. Their courtship is quickly blown apart by the most urgently infectious guitar hook to debase a song since the Pixies. The song accelerates into something more frenetic, dangerous, and complicated—how like love. “It’s always better on holiday / That?...