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...November. The attorney defending Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti and former Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan was heading home from work with a colleague when two Opel sedans and two orange-and-white taxis boxed in his car on the busy main street of his neighborhood. Two men wearing jeans got out firing Russian-made PKC heavy machine guns, riddling the red Proton sedan with bullets, says al-Zubaidi's son-in-law, who arrived on the scene 10 minutes after the shooting and spoke with eyewitnesses. The son-in-law, Riyadh al-Janabi, says that...
...played out, Van Dyke took that dealmaking skill to the Gulf of Mexico. His finds were modest but rich enough to allow him to play the role of Texas oilman to the hilt. In 1969, when a man might pay $25,000 for a nice house in a decent neighborhood, Van Dyke spent $1 million for a house that he later embellished with a 1-acre man-made "lake...
That may have consequences for people like Marguerite Simon, 82. She worked hard cleaning other people's homes, earning just enough to buy into the Ninth Ward, one of New Orleans' poorest neighborhoods. She was wearing rubber gloves, rubber boots and a paper face mask last week, cleaning black amoebic splotches of mold off precious family treasures. Inside the small house, her well-made furniture, with its carved arms and curved legs, lay scattered as if some giant Mixmaster had been whirling away. Sitting on her tiny porch, she managed a laugh. "You have to laugh," she said...
Real estate agent Sherry Masinter, 46, lived with her lawyer husband Milton, 73, in the Lakeview neighborhood until the 17th Street Canal levee broke and flooded their house with 8 ft. of water. Today mold grows up the walls. The couple paid for flood insurance faithfully for 20 years and were reimbursed, but their neighbors are still battling with their insurance company over arcane formulas. Milton argues--as did independent experts from the National Science Foundation and the American Society of Civil Engineers recently--that poor levee design by the Army Corps of Engineers caused the flood, not Katrina. That...
...Orleans' Dillard University, Carmelita is looking for new work. So far, openings for a hot-dog vendor or truck driver have not been too appealing. Carmelita and Nathaniel like to imagine that in three to five years, they may be able to return to New Orleans. Their neighborhood of Pontchartrain Park, the first African-American subdivision in the city, was so wrecked that whatever is left is slated to be reduced to rubble. Carmelita is sad that it will be lost to history, but Nathaniel is not one to dwell on the past. After all, for everything that the family...