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Four years later, the images return in all their ferocity and all their pain: pieces of a proud city sinking before our eyes. Endless streams of people turned into evacueessome turned into heroesin their own country. The pictures of the missing and those who held them...
...proud of what I said and I’d repeat it,” he said. “And everyone else is on notice: when you die, I’m not going to speak good of you if you’ve done bad things. You don’t get a pass on bigotry...
...they beheld the devastationwrought by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, residents of San Francisco had a sense of foreboding about their own proud and beautiful city. Ever since 1906, when a massive earthquake along the San Andreas Fault killed thousands and left an estimated 225,000 people homeless, San Franciscans have lived with the knowledge that one day another cataclysmic temblor will rock the ground beneath their feet, toppling houses and apartment buildings, severing water and power lines and rendering roads and highways impassable...
...have to make component parts offshore. There's no getting around it. But the assembly, the quality control, the fact that we want to be more responsible to the marketplace--we do a lot of that in-house, which we're pretty proud...
James Mosley was both too poor and too proud to leave. His legs were paralyzed since childhood, but it meant the world to James, 52, to strut his independence: he insisted on living by himself in a small, green cinderblock house in the working-class section of Biloxi, Miss., called Point Cadet. And whenever hurricanes approached the Gulf Coast, James adamantly refused suggestions that, given his wheelchair-bound vulnerability, he should evacuate. Says his brother Robert, "He had a big, brave heart...