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...ORLEANS??Her checkbook. Her new dinette set. Her jewelry box with the golden pendant. Helen L. Smith, 70, watched her life, which she had left behind seven months ago, now leave her home. Smith had just returned to her New Orleans home that Friday morning, and seven Harvard undergraduates had met her with heavy gloves and face masks.Now they were gutting her home, carrying her moldy belongings to the curb with aching arms as others tore doors from hinges with crowbars.Smith watched silently, her face hidden by a mask.As the spring break volunteers deposited the debris...
...ORLEANS??One was a lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Another once analyzed policy for the New York City Council. A third helped a candidate win a mayoral race in St. Paul, Minn...
Broadmoor—like the rest of New Orleans??wants to be reborn. But first, it must submit a proposal to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, a group of community experts and prominent ex-New Orleanians appointed by the mayor to shape the face of the rebuilt city...
...ORLEANS??Two by two, they carried the heavy planks across the parking lot in the harsh Southern sun, the backs of their arms and necks burning. The hours passed slowly...
...that “that’s just one more thing we struggle with, trying to isolate things to deal with them.” Answering questions about why the students had been working in sites that seemed relatively well off compared to devastated areas such as New Orleans?? Lower Ninth Ward, Bebelle admitted that there were questions about the wisdom of rebuilding particularly vulnerable areas of the city. “It’s politics,” said Bebelle. “Part of the Lower Ninth is only ‘look...