1.0 link 207466 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/new-orleans-not-a-city-of_b_207466.html NEW YORK -- When I say, as I did in a recent response to a commenter critical of New Orleans, that that city's people are the most resilient and self-reliant folks I've ever encountered, I didn't yet have this example at hand. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports on a former boxer from New Orleans who, frustrated with the torpid response to the lack of medical facilities in New Orleans East after the federal levees breached and flooded out the...

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