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...spoke about what he had done for the city, the changes he had made to procedures in dealing with hurricanes, the new charter schools, and the new playgrounds. New Orleans faced a dip since Katrina, according to Nagin, “but [New Orleans] has risen every year since. Katrina??s rainbow is in effect,” referring to the idea that with every storm comes a rainbow. Brian C. Smith, a representative of sponsoring law firm WilmerHale, said the mayor’s words were honest and it was inspiring to hear about a city that...
...suitcase into the Littauer parking lot at 4 a.m. to go to the airport. I’m not sure what higher force decreed for our freshman Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to leave for Biloxi, Miss.—which had been in the direct path of Hurricane Katrina??before dawn on Housing Day. But sharing housing assignments in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport—“I’m in Eliot!” and “I’m in Currier...
...years after Katrina??s devastation, FM talked to four of the displaced students who spent their fall term at Harvard. Their recollections of unexpected displacement, life at Harvard and the rebuilding of their post-Katrina undergraduate lives sound similar to their descriptions of New Orleans today: initially devastating, still ongoing, but hopeful for what the future could bring...
...have life in a few weeks? On August 29th, Pops passed away peacefully, seconds after the priest administered the Last Rites. As I flew home to JFK–on the same flight as Anderson Cooper, who was down in New Orleans to cover the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina??the tears ruined the yellow legal pad I was jotting Student Government notes on. The engagement party made sense. I understood now. Now was the time to cry and say how much we’ll miss him. Now was the time to weep—not when...
...upwards of one million dollars an acre, and where—just a few miles away—public housing recipients fend off efforts by local and state officials to dislodge them from their homes. This is a place where redeveloped casinos—opened only months after Katrina??glitter along the coastline and reap profits off eager gamblers, while rural African American residents still struggle to replace the schools that were destroyed by Katrina...