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...find people who have been displaced by the hurricane.Kessler said that he expected to find differences between the results from the New Orleans survivors—who mostly faced damage because of levee damage—and those from elsewhere in the Gulf Coast. “People in Mississippi and Alabama had an act of nature occur to them, whereas in New Orleans, a lot of people think it’s not an act of nature, it’s an act of bureaucratic inefficiency,” he said. “There?...
...well have come indirectly from corrupt Russian oil interests, which have never expressed much interest in moral fitness; half a million dollars from textile companies in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific that are known for their cheap labor; and a quarter of a million from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Abramoff's largest client. (See accompanying graphic...
...said many times that your top three priorities were ?housing, housing and housing.? Today we've got about 40,000 evacuees still living in hotel rooms. In Mississippi, hundreds of people are living in tents. Were you successful...
...trailers a day being deployed in Louisiana. We're getting close to our goal in Mississippi. The real problem is that you have so much housing that's been removed. Not everybody can fit back into New Orleans...
...Actually, my flash of optimism came after reading Rising Tide [John Barry's book about the Mississippi flood of 1927]. Have you read it? I had a sense that if you didn't have New Orleans, you'd have to create one. Because of the requirements of commerce, where it's at on the river and so forth. So it's not a question of whether New Orleans comes back, it's how New Orleans comes back...