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UNDER WATER.(donations for Hurricane Katrina, 2005 victims)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 12-SEP-05

Author: Remnick, David
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COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

HURRICANE KATRINA

Nicholas Lemann talks with Daniel Cappello about the fate of his home town, New Orleans.

From 1992, James B. Stewart on his Illinois home town, threatened by floodwaters from the Mississippi.

One of the creepier vanities of most political leaders is the private yearning to be tested on a historical scale. Bill Clinton used to confide that, no matter what else he did as President, without a major war to fight he could never join the ranks of Lincoln and F.D.R. During the Presidential debates in 2000, George W. Bush informed his opponent, Al Gore, that natural catastrophes are "a time to test your mettle." Bush had seen his father falter after a hurricane in South Florida. But now he has done far worse. Over five days last week, from the onset of the...

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