September 5, 2005

Outrage over the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina has worked its way into New York City's mayoral campaign in recent days, with some of the Democratic candidates using the crisis as a vehicle for broader assertions that Republicans have neglected the poor. While none publicly embraced the claim by some black leaders that the official response to the disaster was slow because most of the victims were black, the city's mayoral candidates approached the issue of race as a piece of a larger problem, saying that the relief effort points to a lack of empathy by President Bush toward impoverished city dwellers.

Article on Teilung am Fluss, multimedia performance celebrating 50th anniversary of Austrian State Treaty, performed on banks of Danube river in Linz, Austria, by Lawine Torren theater group and directed by Hubert Lepka; photos (M)

Jim Amoss, the editor of The Times-Picayune, faced an ugly decision on Tuesday morning. About 240 employees and some members of their families, including one 6-month-old baby, had spent the night in the corridors of the newspaper building at 3800 Howard Avenue in New Orleans, just over a mile northwest of the Superdome. They seemed to have survived the hurricane: the building was still standing, though a full sheet of glass from one window had been blown out of its casing, slicing through the general manager's office.

Article on reactions to season-ending episodes of HBO series Entourage and its star, Jeremy Piven; photos (M)

President Bush said Sunday that he would act quickly to replace Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, whose death late Saturday opened a second vacancy on the Supreme Court and a new front in the ideological battle over the judiciary. But the Republican leadership in the Senate signaled that it would almost certainly alter its schedule for the confirmation hearings for the seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, providing time to honor Chief Justice Rehnquist and acknowledging the extraordinary political climate in Washington after Hurricane Katrina.