That would be the tabloid, but not entirely inaccurate, version of the New Orleans story to date.
For someone who spends the vast majority of her day (and days) inside the cocoon of West 57th Street, it's amazing Katie Couric knows so much about what "people" think.
New Orleanians seeking to return home have been punished by the failure of the market and every level of government, after almost three years, to deal with the flood's decimation of the rental housing stock in the city.
Most of us thought the Chinese Olympic problem revolves around Tibet. Nuh-uh. As our National Security Adviser points out numerous times without correction, it's Nepal, stupid.
Is it Times "style" -- or wire-service policy -- to clean up erroneous quotes by high government officials? If so, why? If not, what happened in the Stephen Hadley case?
Yesterday, the Times-Picayune carried a very restrained story about a potentially inflammatory subject: the Corps of Engineers has discovered a persistent leak in the 17th St. Canal floodwall.
One of the most drearily fascinating things about this country's Bush-dictated six-year obsession with Iraq is the early addiction to best-case scenarios.
John Barry is not making the "you broke it, you fix it" argument relative to the Corps of Engineers' poor design and construction work that catastrophically failed in 2005; his timeframe goes back decades.
