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...aftermath of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's flight from Haiti raises an interesting question about American credibility. Aristide claims that the U.S. forced him to leave the country; U.S. officials deny it. I would like to believe the U.S., but I recall Bush's statements on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be far from truthful. In the case of Haiti, I accept the U.S. version of events but wish I were able to do so without thinking of the boy who cried wolf. No one believes a liar, even when he is telling the truth...
...council—which authorized the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) to begin negotiations with nine artists at its Feb. 29 meeting—originally had rapper Busta Rhymes as its second choice behind Wyclef Jean...
...that year, HCC and the council had lined up Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 to perform at the Bright Hockey Center. Delays in signing the contract stalled the start of ticket sales and the administration ultimately cancelled the concert because it was concerned that not enough tickets would be sold in time...
...Jean-Louis Borloo has made a career of tackling lost causes. As a Parisian lawyer he rescued failing businesses. In 1988 he revived a bankrupt soccer team. And as mayor of Valenciennes from 1989 to 2002, he resurrected the moribund former steel town by revamping neighborhoods, attracting a Toyota factory, building a theater, and planning a regional tram whose first rail will be laid this week. Can this miracle worker save France's embattled conservative government after the party's rout in last month's regional elections? It was evidently with that hope in mind that President Jacques Chirac plucked...
...philosophy came along, says the Rev. Chris Nelson of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minn., "the idea was for ministers to proclaim the gospel and let people figure out what to do with it in their daily lives. Now we are far more application oriented." When Bethlehem Lutheran member Jean Westberg lost her job as a marketing executive three years ago, she found inspiration in Warren's teaching that people who want to be servants of God should "think more about others than about themselves," and she accepted a job as interim executive director for the Episcopal ministry...