Word: ward
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hauled away, not to mention miles of abandoned housing. Sylvia Barabino, who lived in heavily flooded New Orleans East, drove in from Baton Rouge where she has been living since Katrina to vote. Her home is uninhabitable and the elementary school where she taught in the Lower Ninth Ward has not reopened. "This particular race is going to determine what's going to happen to New Orleans," she said. The fact that her neighbors didn't return to vote in large numbers is ominous to Pinsonat. "A lot of people have been watching," he said, "and don't see much...
...Sylvia Barabino, like a lot of New Orleans voters, will be eagerly watching. "It's been eight months, and I don't see nothing going on in the Ninth Ward or the Lower Ninth Ward," she said. "And that's my biggest concern. I'm ready to come home...
...Taming of the Shrew.” He will not bow under her fuss and noise. Neither will he abandon her.‘MUSICIANS’ CITY’Fountain is one of the few who has moved back into this bit of the Upper Ninth Ward. He is little less than a block away from the Habitat for Humanity site where some 40 Harvard undergraduates helped to lay foundations this past spring break.But the healthy construction site was one of the few things moving in the neighborhood. In a place hard hit by Katrina, the growing subdivision Musician?...
...hour lesson on the art of mixing cocktails, I'm probably going to be saturated - with knowledge, of course. Award-winning bartender Stefan Weber knows it too, and so he cautions me and the some 40 other "students" at the bar to drink plenty of water between drinks to ward off the dreaded hangover. "I am going to lead you into the realm of intoxication," says Weber with a mischievous grin. It's his job, as teacher and bartender, to share his extensive knowledge of "the pleasure of serious drinking," as he calls it, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals...
...final Sunday of their trip, they took a tour of the Lower Ninth Ward and parts of the city that had been all but destroyed. Many said the tour overturned their optimism...