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...like saying we should shut down Los Angeles because it's built in an earthquake zone," said former Louisiana Democratic Senator John Breaux. Before the day was out, Hastert's office had issued a statement insisting that he had meant to say only that when the city is rebuilt, it will be important "to consider the safety of the citizens first." In contrast, President George W. Bush, in his televised address the day before, assured the nation that he had ordered his Cabinet to come up with a rebuilding plan for New Orleans and the rest of the devastated Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding A Dream | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

Have no doubt: those places will be rebuilt, although the effort needed for such smaller cities as Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., may be different from the kind required for New Orleans, with its sizable downtown and wide metropolitan area. There are times a city suffers a disaster so enormous that it never recovers. Think of Pompeii. Or Chernobyl. But cities tend to be durable things. They eventually shake off the effects of even the worst catastrophes. A decade after the Great Fire of 1871, Chicago had a booming economy and a population of half a million people, up from about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding A Dream | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

...find a way for the U.S. to declare victory in Iraq before support for the Bush doctrine, at home and abroad, runs out." How many "victories" will it take before the Bush Administration realizes that you cannot buy friendship or bully other nations into it? Although the U.S. rebuilt Germany and freed France, those countries did not support the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. No matter how many young Americans die there, Iraq will never be a reliable friend of the U.S.'s. Ron Thomas Wollongong, Australia Rice seems to disregard the terrible, increasing death toll in Iraq and believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting to Know Him | 9/2/2005 | See Source »

...already feel disengaged", confessed Lynn on Thursday night. "But I pray that we will rehabilitate ourselves and will come back here stronger, to rebuilt Gush Katif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Update: The Settler's Lament | 8/19/2005 | See Source »

...media pool was extremely limited, and I was the only American reporter lucky enough to be included inside the blue-domed, brown stone structure that was rebuilt in the 1950s after being destroyed by the Nazis. With his hands humbly clasped in front of him, the Pope walked into the main hall as the choir sang, ''Shalom alechem,'' or ''peace be with you." After two Hebrew hymns, and the blowing of the shofar ram's horn, the son of a Holocaust survivor and then the synagogue's rabbi spoke. When it came time for Benedict to rise, his remarks wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Roman Pope | 8/19/2005 | See Source »

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