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With the levees repaired and some of the pumps running again, New Orleans residents finally have something to look forward to: dry ground. Things will never be the same, of course, but most people will be able to stitch their lives back together. In the meantime, officials in Washington are trying to figure out what went right and what went wrong. The storm represented the first time since 9/11 that our homeland security system was activated to respond to a disaster.