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Only nine months after the Orange Revolution that swept away a corrupt and cruel regime on a wave of people power, Ukraine's would-be reformers are running out of juice. Last week President Viktor Yushchenko fired his entire government, including former ally Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, after mutual accusations...
The Ainsworths LAFAYETTE, LA. Kirk, his wife Lyndi, baby Jack and daughter Mia, 3, evacuated New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhood before the storm. Heavily armed, the medical-device salesman and friends returned by boat to do search and rescue. At first he thought, "This city is going to be bulldozed...
Because of all the chaos that descended on New Orleans, the acts of heroism often took the form of mini-rebellions against the bureaucracy. Richard Zucschlag, head of Acadian Ambulance, the largest ambulance transport company in southern Louisiana, moved his dispatch center to the outskirts of New Orleans, where it...
In the first days after the storm we dug on our lots like archeologists, searching for scraps and pieces of our past. My most treasured possession dug from the bayou is a lamp I bought from a Biloxi estate five years ago. My youngest stepson found it in the marsh...
In the end, what we need is to stop thinking of things like evacuation and storm shutters as recommended options and more as mandatory responsibility. It's like seat belts, one local official told me. They used to be optional, but now wearing them is the law. Already some communities...