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...dead in Kamal Kote, a village of perhaps 1,000. His head is spinning with it all. "My house is destroyed. 2 crore rupees! ($500,000). I used to come back to this place like a prince to a palace. Now I don't even have a tent to shelter in." We walk some more, stepping over destroyed houses and flattened barns that smell sharply of something dead, and he tells us about his uncle, a college lecturer and a man of some prestige in the village. "He built a good life, he had a good house...
Aboard the ferry, local businessmen wheel and deal and sometimes talk like visionaries. Henry Smith, the man in charge of federal No Child Left Behind programs in St. Bernard, daydreams about building schools on stilts with dorms above them for shelter during hurricane season. Right now, he's just hoping to turn an old Wal-Mart into classrooms for some of the parish's 8,500 students. Builder Terry Tedesco, who sold pricey half-acre lots in his Woodlands development before Katrina flooded him out, is pitching ready-built homes for $150,000. "Why rebuild a house that...
...First Lady Laura Bush is going to guest-star on a special edition of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. She'll be helping rebuild a shelter in Biloxi, Mississippi, and applying oils to [host] Ty Pennington's chest...
Then we came to Camp Street. Around the corner from the intellectual chatter, there was a place where I had reported, a homeless shelter...
...white person. As I looked at TV images of the throngs of black people in New Orleans wandering aimlessly with no food, water or shelter, I wondered if our government would have reacted with the same negligence and incompetence if a natural disaster like Katrina had occurred in a city where the population was predominantly white. If white people put themselves in the place of the black people in New Orleans, we might better understand how racial prejudice, as demonstrated by our dulled response to the plight of those hurricane victims, is harmful to us all. Greg Gianas Redmond, Washington...