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...During one of the many trips from Lakefront to pull families out of the waterlogged city that evening, Tarchick?s crew spots a signal. Below, Edna Fleming (her head nearly bald from cancer chemotherapy), her boyfriend Curtis and some of her relatives and friends have been camped for three days out at the top apartment of a two story house on Upper Line in uptown New Orleans. Early on, they could still be merry about the predicament, using their gas stove to deep-fry the frozen chicken as it thawed, and celebrating her niece Nakisha Washington's 29th birthday...
...Battle of New Orleans may yet be a cataclysmic event that scuttles Bush's political agenda. One can imagine how the reconstruction of an American city will put unbearable pressure on him to pull out of Iraq or abandon his partial privatization of Social Security. And it may yet emerge that the federal response to Katrina was even worse than it seemed, making the questions about pre-9/11 intelligence pale by comparison. Democrats harbor such fantasies. But Bush's career is all about people underestimating him and it would be a mistake to do so this time...
...Malisse looked like he had just stepped out of a swimming pool and swung like he was under water. He kept looking around for help, and there was none to be found, not even a solitary Belgian to root him on. Remarkably, Malisse finally found the right gear to pull out a 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 win over Jan Hernych...
...There's little to suggest that Schr?der can pull off a third straight election victory. The SPD has clawed back some ground?it notched up one percentage point in the polls, from 29% to 30%?and the Chancellor himself got a Nobel Peace Prize nomination last week for his opposition to the war in Iraq. But none of the other signs are good. The party hasn't been able to capitalize on the CDU's rocky first few weeks of campaigning. Unemployment is still at a record high and a recent uptick in economic growth may have come too late...
Autopsies are typically performed in private, and on dead people, so the public vivisection this summer of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has at times been a pretty engrossing spectacle. Some opponents got sloppy in their handling of his views; NARAL Pro-Choice America had to pull an ad after linking Roberts to abortion-clinic bombers. Some supporters discovered on closer examination that maybe he was a different species of conservative than they had thought, particularly when they learned he had moonlighted on behalf of a gay-rights group. Overall the very deliberate examination of his every argument and memo...