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...Saturday's slaughter - the worst single incident since March 1995, when five people were murdered in a Ninth Ward home - brought the year's homicide tally to 52. After a long lull in violent crime following Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate in New Orleans and its suburbs has been rising as more residents return to the area and the repopulation of flooded neighborhoods continues...
...Saturday's slaughter - the worst single incident since March 1995, when five people were murdered in a Ninth Ward home - brought the year's homicide tally to 52. After a long lull in violent crime following Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate in New Orleans and its suburbs has been rising as more residents return to the area and the repopulation of flooded neighborhoods continues...
...which was fine while their two daughters were young, but then their standards rose. "The holiday complex was rather noisy in summer, with disco music and children running around, and the apartment was too small for a permanent home," says Anne, 60. Then in 2002, when there was a lull in their luxury-export business back in England, they decided to retire early, and bought a three-bedroom apartment in a gated community with a swimming pool and a sea view. "As soon as I saw this building I fell in love with it. It has the 'it' value," says...
...bodily exhalations, of chewing gum and impure cafeteria food, and of cloth -cotton and wool and the synthetic materials of running shoes, warmed by young flesh. Between classes there is a thunder of movement; the noise is stretched thin over a violence beneath, barely restrained. Sometimes in the lull at the end of the school day, when the triumphant, jeering racket of departure has subsided and only the students doing extracurricular activities remain in the great building, Joryleen Grant comes up to Ahmad at his locker. He does track in the spring; she sings in the girls' glee club...
...Identity is important to Malkani, even though it never led him to a life of gang violence and pastel-hued luxury cars. "One of the things people always ask me is whether I was a rudeboy," he says during a lunchtime lull at London's Financial Times, which is letting him work part-time at his job editing business feature stories while he promotes the book. (A U.S. tour is scheduled for the summer.) "Not at all. At school I was a swot, into books." But Malkani did grow up firmly in the middle of desi culture, despite his mother...