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...packed coffee beans. They may be going for high camp, but the 130 songs, arranged chronologically--starting with M.C. Hammer's sample-based U Can't Touch This and ending with Moby's sample-based Natural Blues--more or less re-create the bipolar experience of listening to commercial radio...
...good work" on Thursday, then called the results "not acceptable" on Friday. By then, 55 nations had offered to pitch in--including Sri Lanka, whose disaster scars are still fresh. "Get off your asses, and let's do something," New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin raged in a radio interview that he ended in tears. But he of all 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...
Reliving a scenario earmarked for change after 9/11, officials in different agencies still couldn't communicate by radio or telephone with one another, despite generous Homeland Security grants meant to fix such problems. Others had nothing but cell phones, which predictably failed. Even the Salvation Army lost contact with 200 of its volunteers...
Meanwhile, in the strange parallel universe of Washington press conferences, federal officials regularly congratulated one another. "I think it is a source of tremendous pride to me to work with people who have pulled off this really exceptional response," Chertoff said Thursday. In an interview with National Public Radio, he was pressed six times about the misery of the 25,000 refugees at the Convention Center. Chertoff said he had not heard about any problems...
...Thursday night, the mayor of New Orleans had had enough and vented his spleen on a local radio station, WWL-AM. "This is ridiculous. I don't want to see anybody do any more press conferences," said Nagin. "We authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick. After 9/11, we gave the President unprecedented powers lickety-quick to take care of New York and other places," he said. "You mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can't figure...