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...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...
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...