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...Jean Braucher is a law professor at the University of Arizona...
...course, I agree with Lewis that the economic and political situation in Haiti is deplorable (a situation not helped, incidentally, by the Clinton administration's ill-advised 1994 military intervention on the behalf of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide). I do not believe that it is commensurate with the kind of stifling, Stalinist repression that Fidel Castro continues to wreak upon Cuba. All the same, it seems to me that if Lewis wants to raise awareness of the plight of Haitians, the way to do it is not to deny the plight of Cubans. And I agree that we should...
...years old, Mya says she's taken more control over her sound and her image (she co-wrote several of the songs on Fear of Flying). "This album was an opportunity and a test," she says. Mya was assisted by a stellar group of producers, including Swizz Beatz, Wyclef Jean (of the Fugees) and Rodney Jerkins (who worked on Toni Braxton's sultry new CD, The Heat). On her previous album Mya was a lovestruck teen; on her new album she's a woman coming face to face with romantic entanglements. But, let's face it, the lyrics aren...
...been charged with shepherding since its New Year 1999 debut, is down 23 percent, and on Monday finance ministers from the 11 euro-zone nations arrived for their monthly meeting in a deepening panic. "It is quite evident that we have to address the euro situation," said Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker. "We have to be more creative." But the finance ministers have already signed away all their powers to the ECB. And though speculators' hearts raced Friday after a sorrowful Duisenberg hinted at a euro-buying intervention to goose demand, such moves are usually stopgap measures at best. Long...
...most frightening development was the assassination of a well-known radio commentator, Jean Dominique, who was one of the few uncensored voices in the country. Dominique was gunned down by masked assailants outside the station where he had worked for more than fifteen years. The free and democratic elections promised by the President, Rene Preval, have been postponed for months. Since March 29, ten prominent public figures have been assassinated for political reasons. During a political riot following the funeral of Dominique, the police reportedly stood by and did nothing...