Word: katrina
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...unclear - but their "date" begins by hopping into Gordy's old convertible and heading for what we presume to be the Mississippi. The film (releasing nationwide over the month of March) is set in the fall of 2007, and there's talk of all the damage from Hurricane Katrina that's awaiting them downstream. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...Hill often overlooks oversight of the executive branch. For example, says American Enterprise Institute scholar Norm Ornstein, during the period of GOP dominance under George W. Bush, homeland-security oversight failed. "The failure to do any oversight of the Homeland Security Department helped lead to the failure of Katrina," Ornstein says...
...first Super Bowl win provided the best reason to ratchet up Mardi Gras a week early. It was a long-overdue celebration--not just for the Saints, after 43 years of bag-over-their-heads futility, but also for the Big Easy itself, after four-plus years of post-Katrina pity parties. It was a night to stop feeling sorry. New Orleans is still a high-poverty, high-anxiety mess. Some of its neighborhoods have barely begun to rebuild, and it's still outrageously vulnerable to coastal storms. Its levees are too weak, and the wetlands that once protected...
...host of her own CNN program, Amanpour has gained recognition for her hard-hitting coverage on domestic crises like Hurricane Katrina. The fluent speaker of English, Persian, and French has also reported in international war zones such as Afghanistan and the Balkans...
...winner of nine news and documentary Emmy Awards and host of her own daily series "Amanpour," the 26-year veteran reporter's coverage has included major conflicts including the Persian Gulf War, the Bosnian War, as well as Hurricane Katrina and the crises in Somalia and Rwanda...