There's some varied offerings on that subject:

NYT: After failures, officials play the blame game

W-P: 'How could this be happening in the United States?'

W-P: Storm exposed disarray at the top

W-P: Officials deal with political fallout by pointing fingers

Newsweek: The Lost City

LAT: Why FEMA was missing in action

Gail Porretto is middle-class and white. Tracy Jackson is poor and black.

Their stories play out predictably in this NYT piece.

To see Celine Dion's freakout over Hurricane Katrina, go to this CTV.ca story and under video on the right-hand side, look for her name and click.

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This NYT story tells how the Times-Picayune of New Orleans and other Gulf Coast newspapers kept going after Hurricane Katrina tried her best to put them out of business.

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The NYT's David Brooks picks up a thread from a blogger (in addition to building on an earlier column) an asks whether the Hurricane Katrina disaster will trigger a major political shift in the U.S.

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In Killed by Contempt, NYT columnist Paul Krugman, writing about the Bush administration's general opposition for government as a force for public good, included the following paragraph:

Each day since Katrina brings more evidence of the lethal ineptitude of federal officials. I'm not letting state and local officials off the hook, but federal officials had access to resources that could have made all the difference, but were never mobilized.

Here's one of many examples: The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S.S. Bataan, equipped with six operating rooms, hundreds of hospital beds and the ability to produce 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day, has been sitting off the Gulf Coast since last Monday - without patients.

Here's one from the NYT's Maureen Dowd, in United States of Shame, published Saturday:

Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center.

Was he sacked instantly? No, our tone-deaf president hailed him in Mobile, Ala., yesterday: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."