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...groupings, holding a credible election right now becomes more of a challenge. Presidential candidate Charles Henri Baker, who trails behind frontrunner and former president René Préval, has preemptively blamed "tampering" by the international community in the event that he loses. "The next day, you will see civil war," he predicts. Préval, on the other hand, is so confident of his popularity that he has done almost no campaigning. "His record speaks for itself," says one of his key strategists. That may be true, but like all things Haitians, there's no consensus on just what...
...brave people like Spielberg. He is willing to tell the truth in his movies and make a difference. Elena Shumsky Orlando, Florida, U.S. I was disappointed to learn that Spielberg considered the heart of his movie to be a fictionalized incident in which a Palestinian terrorist engages in a civil discussion with an Israeli. By rewriting history to humanize the terrorists, Spielberg misses the whole point of the Munich massacre. If the terrorists had been inclined to make their case rationally, the all-too-real atrocities perpetrated against the Israeli national team at the 1972 Olympics would never have occurred...
...Kathie Klarreich is based in Miami and covers Haitian affairs for Time. Her book "Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Vodou and Civil Strife in Haiti" was published recently by Nation Books. (madamedread.com...
...patron information from libraries. Harvard’s Senior Director of Federal and State Relations, Kevin Casey, wrote in an e-mail that the extension, which Congress passed Dec. 22, was an encouraging sign for members of the Harvard community previously critical of the Patriot Act’s civil-liberties provisions. “It is a positive development that an extension was necessary, driven by a conflict over just how robust the protections for privacy should be,” Casey wrote in an e-mail. According to Director of the University Library Sidney Verba...
...Crimson on Dec. 19. News that the story had been discredited came too late for the flurry of critics, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54, D-Mass., who had already seized on the story as evidence of the federal government’s disregard for civil liberties. The UMass-Dartmouth student originally said two officials from the Department of Homeland Security had shown up at his home to question him about his interest in the “Little Red Book,” the Chinese Communist leader’s seminal text. But in a meeting...