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...enough when Jean Bernard Charles was shoved to the ground in handcuffs four months ago in Port-au-Prince and shot to death by four Haitian police officers for no apparent reason. But then his family complained that Haiti's U.S.-trained police should not be in the business of murdering civilians. This, they quickly discovered, was a mistake. First came the warnings: if the relatives didn't shut up, they might suffer the same fate. Then came the threats: one afternoon a few officers caught up with Charles' cousin and said he was going to be arrested. When...
...Last month a Human Rights Watch/Americas report offered a shocking account of indiscipline and incompetence among the 5,000-strong force. The report cited dozens of cases of beatings, torture and murder. It also highlighted the inadequate training the officers received, and drew attention to the failure of the Haitian government to prosecute rogue cops. "It's sad," a U.S. official told TIME. "Here's a force that we invested $65 million in, and from the same account, we're now using money to protect people from...
When the nominees for the 39th annual Grammy Awards were announced last week, a lot of familiar, if not shopworn, names were on the list, including Bryan Adams, Sheryl Crow and Journey. There were also, thankfully, some fresh, exciting names--the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees certainly deserved their nomination in the Album of the Year category, as teenage country crooner LeAnn Rimes did hers for Best New Artist. But one name stood out from all the others. Or rather, kind of leaned against the wall, looking cooler than everyone else in the vicinity in a throwback...
...Fugees The Score (Ruffhouse/Columbia). Tough but tuneful, ready to entertain but unwilling to compromise, this Haitian-American rap trio proved that positive, semipolitical hip-hop could outsell gangsta rap--and alternative rock too. Drawing from reggae and soul, the Fugees created a fresh bicultural sound as bright as the Caribbean and as blunt as New Jersey...
...homegrown talents struggle, two of the best-selling performers in the U.S. this year turned out to be Canadian--Alanis Morissette, a wishy-washy pop singer turned vengeful rocker, and Celine Dion, a wishy-washy pop singer who has become an internationally best-selling wishy-washy pop singer. The Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees also scored a breakthrough this year with their sophomore album, The Score, which has sold more than 5 million copies so far (their debut sold only 130,000). A look at any recent Billboard chart shows that hard-core rap continues...