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On the surface, which is the only part of most major cities that tourists visit, New Orleans seems to have cleaned itself up quite nicely in the year since Katrina. French Quarter businesses have swept their stoops and hung banners, and bawdy Bourbon Street is awash in neon; Creole stalwarts...
In the sweltering summer of 2006, New Orleans' anxious tourism industry could use a truckload of the stuff. Hurricane Katrina brought the city's multi-billion convention and tourism industry to a dead halt. Meetings and conventions that had been scheduled years ahead of time cancelled, along with the hundreds...
A lot is riding on the city's ability to lure visitors back. For better or worse, New Orleans has long staked a disproportionate share of its economic health on the tourism and convention business. Before Katrina, tourist spending pumped up to $6 billion into the local economy, employed 80...
Being at Bill's side can seem like standing next to a nuclear blast. Hillary appeared to vanish as he set the audience on fire at Coretta Scott King's funeral in February. When Hillary's moment came, aides noticed something familiar about her ponderous tribute: she was lifting the...
If they held a convention for racial purity, I would never make the guest list. Like most other Latin American families, mine is a multiethnic stew that has left me with the generic black-eyed and olive-skinned look typical of large swaths of the world's population. My father...