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Lindahl says the idea came from listening to Library of Congress recordings of survivors of the Dust Bowl, Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 attacks. "Really, the best of them were not collected by professionals like myself but by people talking to people who had shared the experience," he says. "Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston" is the first large-scale project in which survivors have taken the lead in documenting their lives before, during and after a major disaster. So far, more than 30 survivors have collected over 250 stories in English, Spanish, Vietnamese and even Garifuna, a Creole...
...Economic Pearl Harbor.' WARREN BUFFETT, investor, describing the nation's financial crisis, after purchasing $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group stock...
With their endless string of pearl beaches, heavenly climate and sensual bossa nova culture, Brazilians consider themselves uniquely blessed. So when the first of two gigantic oil fields was discovered off the coast near Rio de Janeiro last fall, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva saw it simply as further proof of a celestial bond. "God," Lula gushed, "is Brazilian...
...landscape, and perhaps it’s because of the time I spent there that I noticed more acutely the way in which Welty’s stories unfold in such specific landscapes. I had always loved her characters, but they can only exist near places like the Pearl River of “The Wide Net.” The story’s protagonist is searching the river for the body of his wife, who may or may not have drowned herself. Despite the gravity of the main character’s situation, he remains placid, just like...
...this generation’s Woodstock, harboring an empty hope that the experience would be an appropriate comparison to that summer of ’69. I would like to believe that I am not naïve enough to be disappointed by an event that chose Metallica and Pearl Jam as headliners, that it’s no surprise that the words “sellout” entered my mind on numerous occasions. Still, I can’t help but feel the dull pain of disappointment, as if catching the show this year, its sixth...