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The Families Who Could Decide New Orleans' Fate

NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29) -- Michael Canedo remembers clearly the day his neighbors gathered at the local playground and vowed to rebuild. It was two months after Hurricane Katrina. The days were still warm. Ten feet of flood had turned Burbank Gardens, a neighborhood of tidy shotgun homes and "camelback" duplexes, into a dead...

After Katrina: 'The Sanity We Have Now Is a Gift From God'

NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29) -- By the time I arrived here from Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina hit, the Blackwater guards had settled in at the Sheraton on Canal Street. Some of them had rappelled into downtown from Blackhawk helicopters, or so they told us. We never knew if that was actually true, or if their tale was...