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BATON ROUGE, La.—Caroline E. Sloan ’07, horrified and numb, sat in a Little Rock, Ark. Doubletree Hotel room, scanning for her home in the flicker of the television screen...
Turhan F. Sarwar ’06 threw on an old Boy Scout shirt and fled from New Orleans to Jackson, Miss. and then to Baton Rouge, La. before returning home. National Guardsmen drove by, waving, as he photographed dead fish on dry streets. He ironically renamed his city Atlantis...
...areas threatened by every manner of disease. The Graduate School of Education may try to find solutions to the problems raised by Katrina’s destruction of K-12 education facilities. These efforts are also incredibly heartwarming. Any chance for Harvard’s crème de la crème collection of experts to use their collective wisdom and expertise to solve a humanitarian disaster is a chance which must be snatched up before the damage is irreversible. We are happy that Harvard has recognized its place in the national ethical community. And with all of Harvard?...
BATON ROUGE, La.—The line stretched along the hallway, up the stairs, and around the corner in Pleasant Hall, a Louisiana State University (LSU) building commandeered to process the thousands of students who, some without homes and all without colleges, would join LSU for a semester...
...Heads should roll at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security, and with any luck public outrage will compel the firing of the untalented hacks who were in charge during the destruction of New Orleans. However, the suggestion that without war (à la Michael Moore’s line of “all our helicopters are in Iraq”), or Bush’s budget cuts, or some other disagreeable government policy Katrina would not have been an enormous disaster is disingenuous to the point of being an outright lie. The idea...