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...fall collection had arrived. Drummond plans to tour while his wife stays with her family in McComb, Miss. "Got to go where I can be of some use and work," he says. His radiologist father-in-law James Boothe, who drove in from out of state to help them pack, seems dazed to be in a deserted city with armed military making noisy house calls in the distance. "You don't think of a city of 1 million evacuating permanently," he says, shaking his head...
...people was in a position to understand the odds. A city known both for its charm and its rot, not just from the termites consuming whole neighborhoods but from a corrupt police force, dissolving tax base, neglected infrastructure, rising poverty and a murder rate that inspired old-timers to pack a gun beneath their tuxes on their way to the Mardi Gras parade, could hardly have been less equipped to cope with a catastrophe that everyone knew was coming. "Half of Louisiana is under water," former lawmaker Billy Tauzin used to say, "and the other half is under indictment." Three...
...storage buildings, providing her customers with everything from hay to plumbing supplies to power tools. But in addition, like all baby boomers who have plunged into unconventional fields, she relishes the novelty of her position. "It's kind of a kick," she says, "that I stand out from the pack as a woman in a man's world at this point in my life...
...where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed, Carpenter, 36, retreated to his ranch house in the hills overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., for a quick dinner and an early bedtime. He set his alarm for 2 a.m. Waking in the dark, he took a thermos of coffee and a pack of Nicorette gum to the cluster of computer terminals in his home office. As he had almost every night for the previous four months, he worked at his secret volunteer job until dawn, not as Shawn Carpenter, mid-level analyst, but as Spiderman--the apt nickname his military-intelligence handlers...
...this early stage, part of the trick to leading the pack is insisting that you aren't part of it. The other part is making sure you take everyone's attention away from the people who are. As less familiar hopefuls start making the rounds in Iowa and New Hampshire, McCain and Clinton say they are too busy with their day jobs--and, in her case, a Senate re-election race--to be giving 2008 more than an occasional thought. Both declined interviews for this story linking their prospects, a reticence that is not unusual for her but something that...