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...fiction and non-fiction, in works such as What is the What and Zeitoun, Eggers has often engaged with the pressing issues of our times, whether it be the plight of a Sudanese refugee or a victim of Hurricane Katrina...
...The crowning moment of Anna Mae Hays’ career was sealed with a kiss....
...“In the most recent 3 weeks, gasoline prices rose by the largest amount on record with the exception of the weeks after Katrina,” Mr O’Keefe said....
...Some people have called the gulf oil spill “Obama’s Katrina”. The better analogy is to our economic crisis....
...Fannie Mae, the government-rescued mortgage group, supports Mr Clinton’s separate fund to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
...The response to Hurricane Katrina was $85bn in public spending. The collapse of AIG, the insurance giant, cost $85bn; Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae a further $42bn....
...The levees in New Orleans held fast as hurricane Gustav landed last week, sparing the city from the physical devastation experienced under Katrina....
...“We’re going to have a problem of the scale we had after Hurricane Katrina,” Mr Poole said, referring to reports of widespread improprieties in government aid programmes....
...Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico, described the crisis as the “hurricane Katrina of the mortgage-lending industry”....
...Those figures refer to non-agency MBS – securities not issued by the giant US housing agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks....
...It was followed by Mae Fong, who has re-opened her Chinese restaurant. Lines were almost as long as the convoys of troops driving by....
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