Word: ward
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They came from affluent suburbs and from the poorest parts of the Ninth Ward, homes far up north and homes levelled to the bare concrete foundation, but all were faced with the same immediate questions: how to secure a dorm room on an overflowing campus, find extra-long sheets, and pick classes to fulfill the requirements of their empty New Orleans schools. Hurricane Katrina has made them freshmen for the second time...
...crisis peels away the veil that often covers the inequities in a society. And that’s what this hurricane has done. It’s peeled away the screen that hid the poverty of the ninth ward from people who went down on spring break to Bourbon Street,” said University of Michigan Professor of History and Professor of Law Rebecca Scott...
...Katrina came at a crucial moment in Bush's second term, when his top legislative priority at home, Social Security reform, was already on life support and the war in Iraq was becoming a mounting economic and political burden. The Administration that had been determined to defy history and ward off the second-term curse--and early lame-duck status--by controlling the agenda and seizing opportunities appears increasingly at the mercy of events, at home and abroad...
...long since been emptied. "One of the guys here has been trying to call FEMA, and all he gets is a busy signal or voice mail," Gupta said. The stress was so overwhelming that perhaps half a dozen hospital staff members had to be treated in the psychiatric ward. The basement morgue was flooded, so the growing numbers of bodies were stacked in body bags in the stairwells...
...Mart, local residents have found a partner of the moment with which they hope to prove a point. "I'm impressed by all these young people who haven't had access to jobs, who are now excited about the opportunity," says Mary Tuff, who lives in the 37th Ward. "They say that all our young people do is just hang on the corner, but it's not true, and now we have a chance to show them." Arguments about the supposed low wages, expensive health plans and gender discrimination are almost beside the point in the 37th Ward...