Summary
FROM the mass feeding and housing of hundreds of thousands of people to the rebuilding of an entire city, Hurricane Katrina will mark the drawing of a line for America.
For all the confidence over the "can-do" attitude and its astonishing capacity for re-invention, there has seldom been a greater challenge to the capacity and competence of government. That is why, for all that this is a massive natural catastrophe, it has already become highly politicised.See the full content of this document
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After Katrina, a New Mission for America
Before this week, the Gulf was America's biggest problem. Now it is the Gulf nearest to home that Americans will see as presenting the biggest claim on their attention and concern. For repair and restoration will require an effort on the scale of San Francisco after the 1905 earthquake or Hiroshima, Tokyo and Berlin in the aftermath of ...
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