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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.
The two families shared a one-story house on South Prieur Street with one good job among them. Thirteen-year-old Timesha Johnson and twelve-year-old Irelle Guidry might have been sisters, with their identically red-tipped cornrows and denim miniskirts. When the city of New Orleans ordered them to evacuate, they gladly would have gone. "I'm poor, but I'm not stupid," said Timesha's stepfather, Charles Covington, a roofer, who wears his own hair in short, blond-tipped dreadlocks. But none of them own a car, and their friends...
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