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The comeback from Hurricane Katrina led NBC's newscast with Martin Savidge's progress report last Friday. Now it is the topic of CBS' feature series The American Spirit. Kelly Cobiella profiled Doris Voitier, the superintendent of schools for Louisiana's St Bernard Paris. When all of her 15 schools were flooded out she succeeded by "ignoring the bureaucracy of FEMA" and going into debt to refurbish her schools. Before the hurricane, "would you have considered yourself a rebel?" "Not really," Voitier replied, "I was basically--as most teachers are and most educators--a rule follower but I quickly saw that in a crisis situation you had to throw all that out because nothing would get done." And sitting on FEMA's desk to this day is a bill for $15m to repay St Bernard's debts.
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