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...story on Karl Rove's involvement in the storm over the disclosure of a cia officer's identity drew mail from readers who criticized White House tactics, while others saw a partisan attack Whether Karl Rove technically broke a law when he leaked the identity of cia operative Valerie Plame [wife of Administration critic Joseph Wilson] is beside the point [July 25]. Despite repeated denials by the White House, Rove talked about Plame to Time's Matthew Cooper as well as to Robert Novak, the reporter who blew her cover. So the President's deputy chief of staff was involved...
...storm and subsequent flooding represent one of the most significant national disasters in American history. Hundreds of fatalities throughout the Gulf Coast have already been reported, and Nagin has speculated that the death toll may be in the thousands, a number that grows as rescue workers and police officers face a seething and hungry population...
Meanwhile, five million people in the Gulf Coast remain without power, and risk analysts have estimated that the storm will cost insurers a record $26 billion...
Thousands stayed behind in the city or relied on strained rescue and relief efforts, many of them condemned by their poverty to ride out the storm and its aftermath or simply wary of a lifetime of boy-who-cried-wolf predictions. New Orleans' poverty and crime levels dwarf those of the rest of the nation, with a staggering percentage of black males seeing the inside of prisons during their lifetimes...
From the safety of relatives' homes or hotels, Harvard students displaced by the storm grappled with uncertain futures. Facing the prospect of an entirely new financial status, one student e-mailed a financial aid officer for help...