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Someday, historians will find in the saga of New Orleans a 21st century morality tale about wealth and poverty, black and white, man and nature. We chose to focus on the woeful lack of preparedness for the future as a symbol of the same dearth of responsibility that gave us Katrina in the first place. Our special report is built around a powerful cover story written and reported by senior correspondent Michael Grunwald, who has been obsessed with New Orleans since Katrina. Michael, who is the author of The Swamp, a well-received book on the Everglades, explores...
...history would be easy, but the ongoing, three month-long tug of war for ABN Amro trumps most takeover bids for drama. While rival European lenders have swooped for the Dutch bank in recent months, activist shareholders and even the Dutch courts have intervened in a drawn out saga offering no shortage of twists and turns...
...shall not do him wrong... [he] shall be as native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Progressive Evangelical leader Jim Wallis refers to this as "the Levitical immigration policy." It reaches deep into Judaism's Exodus saga for its justification. The Israelites were (legal) immigrants in Egypt, but the Egyptians persecuted them when their numbers seemed too threatening; God brought down the plagues. Thus the verse is a warning to Jews never to turn into the Egyptians; a role Salvatierra and her colleagues feel Americans are now perilously...
Like everyone else who studied the couple, Sidey had wondered during his coverage of the Johnson saga, almost from day one, how Lady Bird stood it and never - yes, never - retaliated with anything but a serene and enduring love of the rarest kind. "I adored him," was about as far as she would go to describe her feeling which he said was "awesome in both its physical and intellectual dimensions." She found a natural force, understood that and guided it to the top. Otherwise she might have been a forgotten housewife in clunky shoes and he just another eccentric...
...rapidly changing Taiwan, put his country on the cinematic map. Director Edward Yang, a leader of Taiwan's 1980s new-wave movement, told rich stories, set in modern Taipei, of teenage gangs and empowered girls coming of age. He was best known for Yi-Yi, a family saga told from numerous points of view that won him the 2000 Best Director award at Cannes. Yang was 59 and had colon cancer...