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...alleys or fields near the airport of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where an international delegation recently observed pigs eating human flesh and bones. While interim Justice Minister Bernard Gousse has launched an investigation into Aristide's alleged ties to drug trafficking, which Aristide denies, he has turned a blind eye to U.S. and Haitian reports that Guy Philippe, the rebel-army chief, also had drug ties when he was a police chief in the 1990s. Philippe denies the charge. Gousse insists the cases of Chamblain and other Raboteau convicts - like Jean Tatoune, a rebel-army leader whose conviction appeal...
...fund. In a letter from the Senior Gift Co-Chairs Christopher D. Shutzer ’04 and Tamiko A. Tsurudome ’04, seniors were told that giving to financial aid “ensures that Harvard can maintain their unparalleled (and face it, expensive) international need-blind admissions policy,” while giving to the unrestricted fund would help pay for things like “wireless internet, athletics, gym renovations, dorm refurbishing” and “new faculty and courses...
Last night, the panel members began the talk by examining the desirability of a “color-blind America” in a world where ethnic differences exist...
...sure a color-blind society is necessarily the ideal,” said Flowers, who is also the vice president of programs at Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. “I think that we would like to move to a society where we are not penalized because of differences...
...picture is that of a risk-averse, cynical leader. Time is running out for Putin. If his second term goes the same way as his first, he will be remembered as the man who could have done great things but succeeded only in leading Russia down yet another historical blind alley. --By Paul Quinn-Judge