Word: ward
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...Bush is getting into the nitty gritty of post-Katrina operations. "The president asked a lot of questions about how they're going about getting rid of that debris," press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters Sunday after a briefing in Baton Rouge. "The president asked more about the 9th Ward, and the searches that had gone on there; where they were in terms of the progress of doing the searches of all the homes in that area...
...were black, you'd be in the streets with a machine gun." And so I can sympathize with Rangel and Belafonte-to a point. White racism is the original American sin; it helped create the culture of poverty that exists in places like New Orleans' Ninth Ward. And George W. Bush's dominant Republican Party was reborn in racism, having sided with Southern segregationists in the 1960s. But the tendency of some black baby boomers-the civil rights generation-to attempt to make gains by browbeating white people and ignoring the responsibility of the "victims" themselves has been a total...
...luck wears thin during their long years as a graduate student, their options were, until recently, limited. They could join their fellow students who accrue thousands of dollars of long-term dental debt, resort to dental clinics for Medicaid recipients, or pop pain killers between classes for months to ward off tooth pain...
...tale: line up the animals, imagine the growling and squeaking of the beasts all together-and brush right past the part about this festive convention occurring because everyone other than righteous Noah and his family had drowned. The story holds the promise of the rainbow, but that does not ward off the painful search for meaning every time man's negotiations with the land and sea and air appear to have collapsed, as they have so often in the past year...
Following arrows drawn in bright-red ink ,Tamara Green, 28, and her husband Myriaun Clark, 20, apprehensively shuffled Green's seven youngsters, aged 1 to 12, along in the queue outside the Reliant Center last Thursday afternoon. Before Hurricane Katrina, they lived in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward; now the closest thing they have to a home is a collection of cots and stuffed bags on the floor of the Astrodome. Waiting on line to apply for a Red Cross debit card, the couple heard a rumor that they needed a photo ID to qualify for a card. While...