Word: rebuilders
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...power of the storm but also to the failure of politicians and bureaucrats to think on their feet. In the mostly deserted Ninth Ward, where many of the city's poorest African Americans lived, Barbara Hamilton is searching for an affordable apartment while trying to find financial help to rebuild her house. "The water's not safe to drink. We don't have no lights," says the 67-year-old great-grandmother. "Everybody's talking about they're gonna do this and they're gonna do that. Instead of talking about...
Governor Blanco's new housing formula, which improves on one put forward by Nagin, has the advantage of allowing people to rebuild pretty much anywhere. But there's one important catch: wherever they build, they must meet stringent new state building codes and FEMA rules that require houses in low-lying areas to be raised several feet above ground level. The most flood-prone neighborhoods, many of them poor, will probably require the most new protections, at a cost that could discourage residents from going back to the same spot...
...free West and an oppressed East. They don't make them like that anymore, of course, and there is a conventional explanation why. In the 50 years after World War II, the state of Europe demanded men and women with ideas vital enough to remake a broken Continent and rebuild its broken economies. That work fit for heroes, one might suppose, is done. Europe is prosperous and free; it needs leaders less than managers. Yet if the last few weeks proved anything, it is surely that this comfortable idea is an illusion. Europe faces urgent challenges: integrating its growing Muslim...
It’s time for Harvard to destroy the old stigmas and rebuild...
...said, “Nah, this is the time we destroy and rebuild...