What a shocked world saw exposed in New Orleans last week wasn't just a broken levee.

The third returned to the high point of the roof, where it could see the broken levee, and laid its head on the tar.

No one can deny that the poor were disproportionately affected by the broken levees.

A broken levee was blamed Saturday for flooding in Novato, about 30 miles north of San Francisco.

They might also require some Congressional action before they could take effect, and the Government has already begun to fix some of the broken levees.

High water and broken levees did not put the Belle out of business even as the rest of Alton went without electricity or running water.

They no longer looked out across a broken levee and saw a roaring, unstoppable flood.

They were involved in moving sand bags to block up the broken levees.

We toured the 9th Ward and saw the broken levees.

A broken levee would send deep, fast-moving water through streets that now lie eight feet below the level of the river.