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Speaking to an overflowing tent rife with hundreds of Harvard Law School (HLS) alumni, Sen. Barack H. Obama (D-IL) urged accountability, empathy, and action in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
...insurgency--did. In August 2004, the son was arrested after his car scanned positive for explosives residue. But he was quickly released, a retired DIA analyst says, under pressure from Iraq's government, to keep channels open to his father. "It would be difficult to lure Harith into the tent if Muthanna were in jail," says the former officer...
John Padgett, a boat captain in Pass Christian, Miss., who runs supplies to the off-coast oil rigs, saw his cottage disappear. But he was able to throw his dogs, a tent, a sleeping bag and a Coleman stove and lantern into his pickup before the storm arrived. He's living in the woods just north of Gulfport off Highway 49. "Everything I own now is in that truck," he told TIME, "but the shelters are too overcrowded and uncomfortable. I was born and raised on this coast, so I'm a good little redneck...
...spent 24 years as FEMA's hurricane-program manager for the southeast U.S. before retiring last year. "The emphasis on terrorism has really hurt FEMA's efforts." When Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University (L.S.U.) Hurricane Center, suggested a year ago that the agency stockpile tents for when houses blow down, "this woman from FEMA said, 'Americans don't live in tents,'" van Heerden recalls. "I said to her, people will kiss your shoes for a tent in the end." It was also worrying that the new head, Michael Brown, would report not to the President...
...little late. We went to the deli across the street for our usual breakfast and arrived at the site around noon. We promised our dad we'd make a brief appearance at the cardio tennis media rollout. There was a huge tent with lots of reporters and bands. We did a few sound bites, and then met our dad who briefed us before we did our usual two-minute dog and pony show-which consists of explaining how we practice, the workouts we use, etc. All of these are high energy drills set to music. It was basically showcasing tennis...