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After disasters such as last week's storm, it's commonplace to extol the fierce determination of the afflicted as they rise like a phoenix. But indomitable energy is not what earned New Orleans the sobriquet the Big Easy, and it has never been a Phoenix in any sense. The evacuees I know talked about wandering to visit far-flung friends for a few months before heading home...
...these three things for the people--housing, food and clean water, and health care--while you take care of the infrastructure. One major difference between Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami is that we in Banda Aceh were totally caught off guard. We didn't even know that water could rise that high. The Americans, I believe, are more familiar with hurricanes...
Whether rates will ultimately rise is a matter of debate. Premiums are set according to a state's loss-data history, not a single event. Insurance firms developed more sophisticated modeling techniques after Hurricane Andrew. Now they are able to predict with greater accuracy the frequency and potential damage of storms like Katrina and spread their risk across the country accordingly. While residents in hurricane-prone areas can expect rate hikes, "people in Alaska won't be paying for this," says Robert Hartwig, chief economist with the Insurance Information Institute...
...Financial markets are anticipating another rise in official interest rates this year. Having campaigned in 2004 on keeping interest rates low, Howard is acutely sensitive to a revolt from voters in urban-fringe electorates. An economic slowdown at home or overseas could also cut the ground from under the government. But the local economy has been so resilient for so long-like two burly and laconic Tasmanian miners-that few are expecting a messy end to the good times...
...failing them? For a good liberal, there's nothing more damning than looking culturally insensitive. And Vicente Fox knows this; he knows that half of America will never dare criticize anyone who speaks another language. So he pushes his poor our way, knowing we good liberals will only rise and applaud...