Word: katrina
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What story have you felt most passionate about covering? - Keith Spencer, Everett, Mass. I think probably Hurricane Katrina. I cover a lot of perfectly horrible things. I'd love to shake what we saw in Baghdad. I'd love to shake what we saw in Banda Aceh, where 30,000 people died. But I can't shake the sight of a dead body on a major street corner next to the Superdome and how these people were failed by grownups and their government, whom we entrust to protect...
...reference to Hurricane Katrina as "the largest natural disaster in our nation's history": Experts agree that the destruction following the hurricane was caused by the collapse of the federally built and controlled levee system, which failed when confronted with the precise circumstance it was supposed to protect against. The devastation in the wake of Katrina was not a natural disaster; it was a man-made one. Claudia J. D'Aquin New Orleans...
...reference to Hurricane Katrina as "the largest natural disaster in our nation's history": Experts agree that the destruction following the hurricane was caused by the collapse of the federally built and controlled levee system, which failed when confronted with the precise circumstance it was supposed to protect against. The devastation in the wake of Katrina was not a natural disaster; it was a man-made...
Sophomores Shannon Conway (400 meters) and Kim O’Donnell (800) finished second in their respective races, while junior Katrina Drayton doubled up on the day, taking third at 55 meters with a time of 7.34 seconds and sixth in the 200. Freshman Brianne Holland-Stergar also shouldered multiple events, finishing as runner-up in the shot put with a mark of 12.34 meters and earning sixth in the weight throw. Fellow rookies Meghan Ferreira and Shannon Watt enjoyed promising starts to their Harvard careers as well, taking third in the 55-meter hurdles and shot put, respectively...
Besides the Army Corps, mismanagement by the local levee boards contributed to substandard levees. Katrina wasn't even as bad a storm as had been feared, but the levees weren't as good as had been hoped. Some fact-based decision-making could have saved hundreds of lives and billions of dollars. Here, too, years of complacency were the rule, not the exception. The price was paid this decade...