Mardi Gras uplifts a beleaguered city
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A day after the Zulu parade rolled down his street Â and more than two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded it Â Eddie Handy was beginning to feel at home again.
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From the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip, the NBA makes its next stop for the All-Star game in another city with a long history of knowing how to party: New Orleans.
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Gaily costumed revelers shouting for beads lined the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday for the city's annual spectacle of colorful debauchery as Carnival season came to an end with the massive Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, celebration.
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Fat Tuesday and Super Tuesday collided on the streets of the French Quarter, where revelers added a distinctly political flavor to the city's annual raucous bash.
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City leaders in New Orleans say the success of the NBA All-Star game should be proof enough that their city is capable of hosting major events.
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Million-dollar Antebellum beauties are up for grabs in New Orleans' history-rich part of town.
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Philadelphia Eagles fans finally get their moment, lifting a city that is now draped in green.
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Hurricane Katrina loosened the fragile social restraints in New Orleans, making the city perhaps more dangerous.
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Chilly temperatures did not deter the revelers who turned out Sunday to watch the parades roll through the city on the last weekend before Mardi Gras.
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All that was missing was the crowds. But a  Ramadi celebration of a martyred tribal leader  provided telling evidence of the area's sudden turn against anti-American Islamic extremists
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The city is showing signs of rebirth nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina, but a lack of health care and other services and a dearth of affordable housing could stymie a full recovery, according to a study released Wednesday.
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CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq - Louisiana soldiers donned purple, green and gold and climbed onto Army trucks transformed into floats for an early Mardi Gras celebration Sunday, parading through this base west of Baghdad and pelting troops with colorful beads, coins and candies in true New Orleans style.
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Come back to New Orleans and have a good time. That was the message the Saints' emotional homecoming in a rollicking, refurbished Louisiana Superdome gave the world, a tourism official said Tuesday.
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The ravages of Katrina are still evident everywhere you turn. But there is reason for optimism in New Orleans. A city that once laughed at its colorful and inept political culture has found its civic pride.
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From bohemian fine dining to gussied-up comfort food, this is where the city chows down.
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Wearing beaded sunglasses with feathers, 83-year-old Lorraine&#13;&#10;McCaslin waved a green handkerchief as she danced in New Orleans'&#13;&#10;Woldenberg Park, ushering in what she says is her favorite time of year&#13;&#10; -  Mardi Gras
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Two great civilizations - Greece and Red Sox Nation - celebrated magnificent comebacks. And then there was the compelling American cyclist, roaring through France.