New Orleans writers struggle to pen rebirth story
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Quirky characters, raucous music, jazz funerals, a warm climate and plenty of service-industry jobs made New Orleans an ideal base for writers and a rich backdrop for their work.
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Two recently announced projects for downtown New Orleans stand out as the first truly creative attempts to foster the cityâs resurrection.
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The N.B.A. All-Star Game arrives Sunday to shine a spotlight on New Orleans, but also to embrace a local franchise that continues to lag in the stands despite contending in the standings.
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Armed with college degrees and buoyed with seemingly boundless energy, many young professionals have arrived in New Orleans and taken up work two years after Hurrican Katrina. Hanging over these young people, however, is a persistent question. Will they stay?
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By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN  The Rev. Joseph Jackson Jr. is on a crusade.  Standing amid the rubble and the thick stench permeating the air of New Orleans' lower ninth ward a year after Hurricane Katrina, the Milwaukee central city minister made a vow.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- Church bells pealed at 9:38 a.m. here Tuesday, the moment floodwaters breached the city's levees a year ago, as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina cast a funereal pall over this half-empty city.
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More than two years after Hurricane Katrina hit, going home to New Orleans has become a receding dream for thousands of evacuees.
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PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi  - When hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans it also ravaged a series of small towns. Nearly two years later they have faded from the spotlight but are still struggling to rebuild.
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FoTW Inability to follow a story by reason of anger, part 73
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Amid all the problems that New Orleans has faced, relieving black-white distrust has proven to be one of the toughest
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Though the climax of Mardi Gras is still to come, official data so far from the second celebration since Hurricane Katrina show a city on the rebound.
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A New Orleans doctor who rode out Katrina and is working to rebuild the cityâs health care system talks about the challenges and rewards of practicing medicine in the devastated city.
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Singer Aaron Neville, one of New   Orleans' long string of musical sons, hasn't returned to his   hometown for more than a year because he says he can't bear to   see the battering the city took from Hurricane Katrina.
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Singer Aaron Neville, one of New  Orleans' long string of musical sons, hasn't returned to his  hometown for more than a year because he says he can't bear to  see the battering the city took from Hurricane Katrina.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower   Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd   a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing   high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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The city is staged for a sustainable recovery from Hurricane Katrina's floods but a lack of affordable housing and other challenges could impede its progress, a demographer said in a new report.
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In a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, a new survey reveals that the traumatized survivors of Hurricane Katrina forged a surprisingly powerful inner strength that steeled them against suicidal despair.