Word: urban
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...should have been given a high priority in U.S. defense planning against terrorism. The government's unpreparedness makes me extremely skeptical of the effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security. It certainly didn't seem to have made plans for evacuation and disaster management in this major urban area. The scale of the disaster may have been unprecedented, but I thought the Bush Administration had spent the years since 9/11 planning for the unprecedented. Beth Conlin Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. How dare anyone blame President George W. Bush for this disaster. The left-wingers have criticized the Bush Administration constantly...
...capacity to heal and help" spoke in bold terms about "one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen," proposing a tax-advantaged Gulf Opportunity Zone to create jobs, worker-recovery accounts to help evacuees pay for job training and child care, and even an Urban Homesteading Act to let some low-income victims of Katrina build homes on cheap federal land. Think of it as George W. Bush's New Deal...
...many evacuees has also come under attack. House Democrats have complained that the approach could "result in segregating poor people into unsustainable, artificial communities." A more sensible plan, many of them insist, would be to expand the government's Section 8 housing-voucher program. Meanwhile, President Bush's "urban homesteading" plan has received a lukewarm reception. "You're asking people who make less than $10,000 to build their own homes?" says Bruce Katz, a housing-policy expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington...
...West can be seen as a century-long act of aggression, serious films are more likely to question gun love than to celebrate it. In Aric Avelino's American Gun, a film shown at the Toronto Film Festival last week, the gun is seen as a virtual urban plague that ends young lives, sunders families and turns schools into maximum-security prisons. Andrew Niccol's Lord of War imagines that a Ukrainian-American named Yuri (Nicolas Cage) could rise through the arms-dealing underworld, Scarface-style, spreading the virulence around the globe. There's "one firearm for every 12 people...
...should have been given a high priority in U.S. defense planning against terrorism. The government's unpreparedness makes me extremely skeptical of the effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security. It certainly didn't seem to have made plans for evacuation and disaster management in this major urban area. The scale of the disaster may have been unprecedented, but I thought the Bush Administration had spent the years since 9/11 planning for the unprecedented. BETH CONLIN Brookline, Mass...